Article: Slovene climber trapped on Himalayan mountain in Pakistan rescued, army says


AP Worldstream
08-10-2005
Dateline: ISLAMABAD, Pakistan
Pakistan army helicopters on Wednesday plucked a Slovene climber from a Himalayan mountain where he had been trapped for three days.

Mountaineer Tomaz Humar, 36, was "perfectly all right" after the ordeal, the army official said.

Humar was reported to have been trapped in an icy shaft about 6,000-meters (19,700 feet) above sea level while climbing the Nanga Parbat mountain. He was reported to have been low on supplies and battling hypothermia.

Around dawn on Wednesday, two Lama helicopters rescued Humar and moved him to Gilgit, a ...

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