On June 22, 2013, about 16 militants, reportedly dressed in Gilgit Scouts uniform, stormed a high-altitude mountaineering base camp in Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan and killed 10 climbers, as well as a local guide. Three of the climbers were from Ukraine, two were from China including one Chinese-American, two others from Slovakia, one from Lithuania, and one from Nepal.[2][3][4] A tourist from Latvia was supposed to be in the camp as well, but due to luck happened to be outside of the camp during the attack and remained unscathed while a Chinese citizen managed to escape the assailants.[5][6] The attack happened at the base camp for 8,126 meters (26,660 feet) high Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world.[7] The mountain is popular with trekkers and mountaineers from June to August because of the moderate weather.[7]
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