Climber rescued from dangerous peak
Download Tomaz Humar had spent nearly a week huddled on a ledge six-thousand metres up Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain. He was held in his precarious position by ice screws and ropes. The temperature inside his sleeping bag was minus five deGREes Celsius. Repeated attempts to rescue him failed because of snow storms and avalanches but on Wednesday two Pakistani military helicopters managed to fly close enough to his perch for one of them to dangle a line to him.
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