THEIR GPS TRACKERS SUDDENLY PLUNGED DOWN THE MOUNTAIN—THEN NIRMAL PURJA’S SIGNAL DID SOMETHING RESCUERS COULDN’T EXPLAIN 📍❄️ High between two camps on Broad Peak, an international climbing team vanished into a wall of snow. The first warning did not come from a radio call. It came from their tracking devices, which showed a terrifying loss of altitude within moments. As storms delayed helicopters and rescuers searched the frozen slopes, one signal appeared to shift after the initial fall—briefly raising hope amid an increasingly grim operation. What search teams eventually found confirmed the scale of the disaster.