\u201cThe team had reached the summit on July 1 and was descending when the incident occurred on July 2,\u201d says official
\nislamabad
\nAnother Japanese climber, Onishi Hiroshi, died after falling into a crevasse on the 7,027-metre Spantik Peak, also known as Golden Peak in the Gilgit-Baltistan district Nagar region.
\nConfirming the tragic incident, Deputy Commissioner Nagar Attaur Rehman Kakar said that Hiroshi, 64, was part of a four-member Japanese team that had hired two porters to climb the 7,027-meter peak.
\n\u201cThe team had reached the summit on July 1 and was descending when the incident occurred on July 2, the official said, adding that the climber\u2019s body was recovered and brought to the camp on July 3.
\nLast month, one of two Japanese climbers had been found dead and his body was recovered from a mountain in northern areas.
\nRyuseki Hiraoka and Atsushi Taguchi were attempting to summit the 7,027-metre Spantik Mountain in the Karakoram Range before they went missing.
\n\u201cThe dead body of a Japanese climber was found, and a search is ongoing for the second climber,\u201d Wali Ullah Falahi, the Shigar district deputy commissioner had said.
\nThe body was found 300 metres below Camp 3, he had added.
\nNaiknam Karim, head of Adventure Tours Pakistan which organised the expedition, said that \u201cit is not clear whose dead body has been found\u201d.
\nThe pair had reached base camp on June 3 and were attempting the climb without the help of porters. They were last seen on June 10 and the alarm was raised the following day by fellow climbers who had expected to cross paths with them.
\nSpantik, also known as the Golden Peak, is described as a \u201crelatively accessible and straightforward peak\u201d on the website of a tourist company, Adventure Tours.
\nPakistan is home to five of the world\u2019s 14 mountains higher than 8,000 metres, including K2, the world\u2019s second highest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cThe team had reached the summit on July 1 and was descending when the incident occurred on July 2,\u201d says official islamabad Another Japanese climber, Onishi Hiroshi, died after falling into a crevasse on the 7,027-metre Spantik Peak, also known as Golden Peak in the Gilgit-Baltistan district Nagar region. Confirming the tragic incident, Deputy Commissioner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n