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A JAPANESE CLIMBER has died and a fellow mountaineer has been injured after an apparent rock fragment hit them while trying to scale one of the highest peaks in northern Pakistan.
The two mountaineers from Japan were taking part in a climbing expedition organised by a local tour operator, said Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan.
He said the purpose of the expedition was to summit a never-before scaled peak in the Andaq Valley in the country’s north.
Haidri said that while ascending the mountain on Friday, Shinji Tamura slipped and fell at an altitude of 5,380 metres.
Haidri told The Associated Press that the man’s colleague, Semba Takayasu, was injured when he was hit by something, presumably a piece of rock.
However, he said Takayasu later safely managed to reach the base camp to seek help from local authorities.
Haidri said a search team was quickly sent to the area where the climber slipped, but rescuers failed to find Tamura until yesterday when the operation was called off, declaring the death of the Japanese climber.
“We have been informed by local authorities that the Japanese [man] fell from a great height into the rocks and there were piles of snow and apparently he was buried there. Some of his belongings were found but there is no trace of his body,” Haidri said.
“There is no chance of survival in such incidents, and the injured Japanese Semba Takayasu had also seen him falling from a great height, and rescuers went to the area for the search.”
Local authorities in the region also confirmed the death of the Japanese climber.
According to Takayasu, Tamura was seriously injured when he slipped and fell after being hit by something, apparently a piece of rock, which seriously injured him.
Takayasu said he was also injured but managed to reach the base camp, from where rescuers launched the operation.
He told an AP reporter the body of Tamura could not be found after days of searching.
Tamura said he was rescued from the base camp by a helicopter and later arrived at Skardu, the main town in northern Pakistan, which is known as the gateway to K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.
Every year, hundreds of local and foreign climbers visit northern Pakistan, where some of the world’s tallest mountains are located.
Pakistani authorities said on Saturday they were conducting an investigation into the death of a Pakistani porter near the peak of K2, the world’s most treacherous mountain.
Meanwhile, the fatcat bond holders were compensated fully. Didn’t happen though when ordinary working men and women were persuaded by Mary O Rourke to beg borrow or steal to buy shares in Eircom…..
You may be sure that the majority of the managers and higher level workers lost out on nothing . As usual Mulvey, an ex trade union leader, is a disgrace !
Bloody whingers they were happy when the bank was doing well.
They were happy when the bonuses were coming in.
Lucky to be getting anything should only be statutory and be glad of it.
Frankly, they suffer because they are playing golf with the wrong crowd
My heart bleeds
No bank in receipt of state funds should have been allowed to offer anything beyond statutory redundancy. Maybe not a reflection on the person but the company was dead. I await with interest to see where John Moran pops up now he has allowed recapitalisation of banks.
Staff who resigned not entitled to redundancy… Shock Horror
my dad got his mortgage from anglo when it was a fella in an office.he got €4000 to build the house in dublin, and in the height the house was worth €650,000. in walkinstown. mental stuff
But he built it in the rare old times yeah ?
Anglo Irish Bank never offered residential mortgages
rare old times is right mate. even in walkintown… the house is big and had an extension with utility room and jax. it really makes ye remember how crazy it all was
Maybe I’m Missing something, but if you leave a job for a better offer, even if the company you work for is in trouble, you are not entitled to any redundancy. How is this even an issue for reporting in the media????
I have no sympathy for Anglo staff they did a crap job building a busted bank, paid themselves well and the country was left holding a bill for their collective stupidity. Just suck it up the same as contractors who never got paid or small business that went bust. I shared a lift with a stupid girl who had worked for Anglo and she could see no connection with the loss of services in society and her former company’s bad business decisions
Comments closed for Seanie et pals court case-but open for actual current staff working 9-5 same as u-shame on you Journal
Good. Finally a little bit of justice. It appears the country is slowly releasing its head from its anoos
Maybe I’m Missing something, but if you leave a job for a better offer, especially if the company you work for is in trouble, you’re not entitled to reduntancy!!!!!!
“The reason for this, according to the IBOA, is because creditors of the IBRC could legally pursue payments made to those who left early.”
Excellent. They can go after Fitzpatrick then, biggest payout in one person right there.
The lapdogs for the leprechauns who ruined the country,let them starve,call it the Anglo famine.
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