South Korean missing after fall while scaling Pakistani peak

Pakistan Alpine Club secretary Karrar Haidri, left, and the now missing Korean climber Kim Hong Bin (Pakistan Alpine Club via AP)

Tue, 20 Jul, 2021 - 11:25

Munir Ahmed, Associated Press

A famous South Korean climber fell into a crevasse and went missing over the weekend in bad weather after scaling another mountain peak in northern Pakistan, a mountaineering official said on Tuesday.

Kim Hong Bin was descending after having reached the 8,047-metre (26,400ft) high Broad Peak in Pakistan’s north Karakoram Range on Sunday, said Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Pakistan Alpine Club.