After being hit by falling rocks on a Pakistani mountain, German Olympia biathlon gold medalist Laura Dahlmeier was declared dead on Wednesday at the age of 31.
Her agency said in a statement released on Wednesday that confirmed her death that rescue efforts were “impossible due to the dangerous nature of the site.”
The statement continued, “The operation was suspended because rescue efforts to recover her failed.”

According to a statement from her team on her official social media pages, the accident occurred on Monday at around noon at a height of 5,700 metres (18,700 feet), in the Karakoram range, at around 700 meters.
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After reaching safety, Dahlmeier’s climbing partner triggered the alarm.
A senior local official in the Ghanche district, where the more than 6, 000-meter mountain is located, informed AFP earlier on Wednesday that it was determined that a helicopter rescue was not feasible.
He continued, “She was injured in extremely challenging circumstances at this altitude.”

A team of four, including three Americans and a German mountaineer, confirmed the ground rescue by Shipton Trek &, Tours Pakistan, the expedition’s organizer.
No one was able to reach Dahlmeier because of the possibility of further rockfalls and the site’s “remoteness,” according to her team’s statement on Tuesday.
Local disaster management official Muhammad Ali told AFP that the region’s weather has been “extremely harsh” for the past week, with heavy rain, strong winds, and thick clouds.
The Great Trango Tower was already visible thanks to Dahlmeier, an experienced mountaineer who had visited the area since the end of June.

In a statement released on Wednesday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called Dahlmeier “a role model for peaceful, joyful, and fair coexistence across borders” and that he was “an ambassador for our country around the world (and) a role model for our country’s international cooperation.
She won seven gold medals at the world championships, and she became the first woman biathlete to win both the sprint and the pursuit at the same Games.
At the age of 25, Dahlmeier stopped competing professionally in 2019.
She then began a career as a biathlon broadcaster for ZDF and climbed mountains.
According to her team, she was a certified mountain guide and ski guide.
Source: Channels TV
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