2013 Nanga Parbat massacre 2013 Nanga Parbat massacre On June 22, 2013, about 16 militants, reportedly dressed in Gilgit Scouts uniforms, stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, and killed 11 people; 10 climbers and one local guide. The climbers were from various countries, including Ukraine, China, Slovakia, Lithuania and Nepal. A Chinese citizen managed to escape the assailants, and a member of the group from Latvia happened to be outside the camp during the attack. The attack happened at the base camp on Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world. The mountain is popular among trekkers and mountaineers from
Nanga Parbat (film) Nanga Parbat (film) Nanga Parbat is a 2010 German motion picture mountaineering movie about two brothers, Reinhold and Günther Messner, who climbed Nanga Parbat. als gäste Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messner's younger brother Günther died. Movie begins with the flashback showing two brothers Reinhold (Florian Stetter) and Günther Messner (Andreas Tobias) climbing a mountain. They reach the summit after a risky climb endangering the life of Günther. Then the movie comes to the present scenario where Karl Herrligkoffer (Karl Markovics) is presenting the facts and figures of