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Helicopter rescues 2 Italian climbers in Pakistan

by Iwona Kellie | July 24, 2008 at 07:08 am

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A high-altitude rescue helicopter safely plucked two stranded Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains on Thursday, officials said.

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rumana husain

at 01:33 on July 25th, 2008

Thanks for this story Iwona. I am adding an image issued by Reuters in local papers. The Italian mountaineers, Simon Kehrer and Walter Nones, were stranded for 10 days on Nanga Parbat (literally, 'Naked Mountain') also called the Killer Mountain, Man Eater... It is the ninth highest peak on earth. A Pakistan army pilot Lt-Col Moinuddin airlifted the pair in his helicopter to the northern town of Gilgit.