Ellery Schempp of the Pittsburgh Explorer’s Group Nanga Parbat Expedition which was to be the first American group to reach the peak of Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. Schempp, who is retired, currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Stephen D. Solomon, a professor at New York University, has written a book about Schempp and the Supreme Court case entitled "Ellery’s Protest: How One Young Man Defied Tradition and Sparked the Battle over School Prayer". On November 26, 1956, Schempp staged a protest against the school requirement that each student read 10 Bible passages and the Lord's Prayer each day during homeroom. That day he
2013 Nanga Parbat massacre up four different cases to give an impression that all the perpetrators have been arrested but the real perpetrators are still at large", he said. On February 27, 2015, four inmates made an attempt to escape the Gilgit district jail. Of the two who managed to flee, one was alleged to have been involved in the Nanga Parbat tourist shooting incident. Security agencies started an operation to capture the escapees but the escaped inmates had not been captured. A reward of Rs. 2 million was also announced by the Gilgit Baltistan Home Secretary, Sibtain Ahmed, for people who helped the