{"id":52205,"date":"2026-08-01T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52205"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:16:27","slug":"renowned-mountaineer-nirmal-purja-confirmed-dead-after-broad-peak-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/renowned-mountaineer-nirmal-purja-confirmed-dead-after-broad-peak-avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Mountaineer Nirmal Purja Confirmed Dead After Broad Peak Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug. 1: Renowned Nepal-born mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been confirmed dead after being caught in an avalanche on Pakistan&#8217;s Broad Peak.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, his expedition team confirmed Purja&#8217;s death following the avalanche. The team also said that the other members of the expedition did not survive.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said Purja&#8217;s trusted climbing partners and guides, Pur Bahadur Gurung (Yukta) and Nima Sherpa, were also among those killed in the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The team paid tribute to all those who lost their lives in the disaster and extended its deepest condolences to the bereaved families, relatives, and well-wishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug. 1: Renowned Nepal-born mountaineer Nirmal Purja has been confirmed dead after being caught in an avalanche on Pakistan&#8217;s Broad Peak. In a statement issued on Saturday, his expedition team confirmed Purja&#8217;s death following the avalanche. The team also said that the other members of the expedition did not survive. The statement said Purja&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52207,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52205\/revisions\/52207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}