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An avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan kills 10 climbers. · Spoken News

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Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. An Avalanche on
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Broad Peak in Pakistan kills ten climbers. On the thirtieth
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of July twenty twenty six, an avalanche struck a group
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of ten climbers attempting to summit on Broad Peak in
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the Karakoram Range of Pakistan. The avalanche occurred at an
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altitude of about six six hundred meters on the slope
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between Camp two and Camp three, sweeping them down the mountain.
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On the first of August, it was confirmed that all
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ten climbers had died. The climbers were Nimal Purja, Poor Bahadur, Gourung, Nima, Sherpa, Nadira,
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al Hahathi, Killie Pemba, Shrpa, Nawang, Findu Shrpa, Gyalu Shrpa, Sohail, Saki,
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Malorygeiss and Wangjong. Broad Peak is the twelfth highest mountain
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in the world, at eight o five one meters elevation
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above sea level. It is one of the eight thousanders
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and is located in the Karakoram Range, spanning Gilgert, Baltistan, Pakistan,
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and Shinjiang, China. The first ascent of this mountain was
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in June nineteen fifty seven, accomplished by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmack,
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Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buehl as part of an Austrian expedition.
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