Broad Peak is located in the Gilgit-Baltistan region and is one of the highest peaks in the world.

Sadpara, one of the "safer" eight-thousanders, standing at 8,047 meters (26,555 feet), was part of a Pakistani team that recently recovered the body of a porter from K2, who had died a year earlier.

Days before, Murad successfully retrieved the body of Hasan Shagri, a climber who died last year, from the extreme height of K2 and brought it to the base camp.

On Monday, the mountaineer’s body was retrieved and transported to the Japanese base camp by local rescuers.

The rescue mission, supported by the Pakistan Army, involved six local climbers and rescue personnel. Among them were four climbers from Sadpara village and two from the Shigar region.

A day earlier the Pakistan Army launched an operation to rescue him from Gilgit-Baltistan’s Broad Peak.

Broad Peak, the world’s 12th highest mountain at 8,051 metres after the K2 (8,611 metres) often result in climbers losing their lives.

On Sunday, he slipped at an altitude of around 5,000m as he was working as a guide for a Portuguese female climber during her summit of Broad Peak.

Climber Naila Kiani then sought the army’s help to rescue him. She said that the Portuguese climber had hired the services of Sadpara and a Nepali sherpa for her summit, as reported by Dawn. The team was returning from the summit when Sadpara fell near Camp 1 during bad weather conditions, the reported noted.

Sadpara died while descending from Broad Peak after he was “severely injured during his descent when a loose rock struck him on the head at Camp One”. “Rescue efforts were hampered by the harsh conditions on the mountain, leading to a delay”.

In a statement, Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), recalled the details of Sadpara’s current expedition with the Portuguese climber, and said their “ascent was cut short when the Portuguese climber fell ill, forcing them to turn back”.

Sadpara’s body has been “moved to the Japanese camp, where it will remain until it can be transferred to the base camp”, he said. “It is expected to arrive at the base camp by 2pm today, after which it will be transported to Skardu via an army helicopter,” he maintained.

Haidri said that Sadpara’s death is a sobering reminder of the extreme risks involved in high-altitude climbing, where the line between life and death is often perilously thin. The climber leaves behind three daughters, a son and a lasting legacy of courage and selflessness, he added.

Meanwhile, mountaineer Naila Kiani said that Sadpara’s body was found at 6am today.

Sadpara’s team had turned around without summiting as conditions near the summit were not good, she added.

Kiani, however, termed the weather “good” at the time of the incident. Noting that Sadpara had a rope tied to him and was wearing a helmet, she said the team suspected that the rock that hit him “must have been big and caused internal bleeding”.

In a statement, President Asif Ali Zardari expressed his grief and conveyed his sympathies to Sadpara’s family.

He lauded the climber’s efforts in the field of mountain climbing and prayed for the deceased.

Also GB Chief Minister Gulbar Khan extended his condolences, calling Sadpara a “brave adventurist”.

He said Sadpara’s services for mountain climbing would always be remembered.