Nanga Parbat’s Mummery Spur is infamous for being dangerous. Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard went missing on February 24, 2019 while climbing via this route. Search and Rescue operations continued for several days but with no respite. They were declared ‘Missing and Presumed dead’.
On March 11, Alex Txikon spotted silhouettes of there bodies on a slope at Mummery. These were later declared as the bodies of Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard. They were still attached to a safety rope. But it is unclear whether an avalanche hit this duo.
Get a valuable insight into Nardi’s philosophy of climbing the dangerous Mummery Spur of Nanga Parbat. It also has other details rarely known, in this interview.
This is a tribute to one of the climbing legends who is no more.
By Naveed Bari
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