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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Three foreign climbers are missing and feared dead on Pakistan’s treacherous Karakorum mountain range in the country’s far north, an official said on Thursday. Pakistan is home to five of the world’s 14 “super peaks” – those over 8,000 metres (26,246 feet) high – and the climbing season is currently in full swing. A senior government official from the Gilgit Baltistan tourism department told AFP that Canadian Richard Cartier and Australian Matthew Eakin were missing on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, while Briton Gordon Henderson was lost climbing Broad Peak, the twelfth-highest. “We …