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)

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.