The German Olympic Biatlon Champion Laura Dahlmeier has died after an accident of mountaineering in Pakistan, her management confirmed on Wednesday.
The accident occurred around noon on Monday, at an altitude of approximately 5,700 meters in Laila Peak, the Pakistan Alpine club said Tuesday.
Dahlmeier was climbing with his mountaineering partner when he was beaten by a sudden rock fall in the Hushe Valley, part of the Northern Gilgit-Baltistan region. The bad climatic conditions prevented a rescue helicopter from reaching the site.
“Laura Dahlmeier died on July 28 in a mountain accident in Laila Peak (6,069 meters) in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan,” their representatives from Germany said to Germany to Germany Die Welt newspaper.
“A recovery operation was launched, but finally canceled on the night of July 29.”
Dahlmeier, 31, withdrew from the biathlon in 2019, 25, a year after becoming the first female biathlete to achieve a double sprint and persecution in the same Olympic Games.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation expressed a deep sadness in the news.
“He was more than an Olympic champion: he was someone with heart, attitude and vision,” he said in a statement about X.
Dahlmeier, who was born in the city of skiing Bavara de Garmisch-Partenkirchen, was also honored by the prime minister of his native state, Markus Sobeer.
“Laura Dahlmeier personified her native Bavaria in the best sense of the word: she was ambitious and successful, but she always remained humble and close to her homeland,” he said in a statement.
“Even after his active career, he shared his love for sport as an expert in winter sports, a member of the mountain rescue and ski rescue service.”
