Death of Brother
In July 1980, Nazir Sabir lost his elder brother Inayat Shah, who served in the Pakistan Army (SSG). This was Inayat's second attempt on Diran on the SSG expedition. On their first trip in 1979 they had to return from merely 150 m from the summit due to Khalid Bashir who had developed pulmonary oedema and on the descent KB fell to his death. A year after they returned to look for the body of KB and also to take on Diran itself for taking the life of their close colleague. He along with the climbing leader Shaukat Nazir Hamdani and Rasheed were buried under an ice avalanche while attempting Diran 7527m on this second Army SSG Expedition while waiting out a bad weather spell in camp-3 thus ending the hopes of Nazir and his brother to climb Broad Peak the following year and many mountains together. The Expedition was led by the legendary "Brig. T M".
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