Army helicopters will try to airlift a trapped climber Humar from 'killer' peak of the 8,125-metre Nanga Parbat peak - in the Himalayan range on Tuesday morning. Military authorities on Monday decided to expedite the rescue operation to save trapped climber, when Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri spoke to them on the situation.
Nazir Sabir who runs a Himalayan expedition outfit and is a close friend of trapped climber Humar told reporters after calling Foreign Minister Kasuri said that Slovenia's top mountaineer, Tomaz Humar, became trapped on August 5 in heavy snowfall at 5,900 metres on a ledge of Nanga Parbat.
Rescuers are frantically trying to reach renowned mountaineer stuck for three days on a ledge of a Himalayan peak known as 'The Killer.' Bad weather continues to dog rescue attempts on the world's ninth highest peak, in northern Pakistan.
Humar's food supplies and radio batteries are running out. "Humar didn't take much food or other supplies with him because he wanted to climb as light as was possible," Pakistan's top mountaineer, Nazir Sabir, told the BBC. "If we are lucky, he may still be left with enough survival rations to last him for about 72 more hours," he said.
Sabir is co-ordinating the rescue effort being jointly made by climbers from Nazir Sabir expeditions and the Pakistan army.
Sabir said a military helicopter had tried to reach Humar on Sunday but could "only get close enough to take a few photographs".