We learned that the first person was dead when we were baking the cake. By the time I blew the candles out, the second person was dying. This was my fourth birthday celebrated in Pakistan, and like all the others it was more painful than fun.
Karl Unterkircher, of the Italian team, was a great climber. He summited both Everest and K2, pioneered a new route on Gasherbrum 2, and now suffered a fatal fall into a hidden crevasse on the Raikhot Face of Nanga Parbat. His partners struggled through the night to get to his body, wedged some 50 feet deep in the crevasse, where either the cold or injuries or some combination slowly stole his last breath.
A phone call from Italy, interrupting the hourly calls from Iran, brought us this news. Karl's partners were unable to reverse their route, the Italian said, and were now forced to descend our face on Nanga Parbat. Could we help?

We do not know if the Italians have reached the Kinshofer route. According to Mr. Messner, the only secure and possible way for them is to traverse 1.5 Kilometres from one face to another to reach the Kinshofer route. 
Early tomorrow morning the weather may get better and the helicopter is kept on standby for take off. 
We did not succeed in getting the phone numbers of the two Italian mountaineers from Mr. Gallo, the person in charge of the Italians’ rescue team who are now in the North camp of the Rakhiot route. 

Bruce and two high porters couldn’t continue and returned to the main camp. Our team did not confirm these two high porters. 
Pakistan military has declared that they cannot offer any helicopter for the rescue operation. 
Mr. Bakhtiari is looking for any possible way to send a mi17 helicopter, which is able to fly to the height of 8000m, to help Saman. He is in direct contact with Base Camp and also with the embassy of Iran in Pakistan. 
Bruce returned to Skardu and if conditions get betterfor climbing, he may come back. 

Despite the terrible weather and heavy snowfall the team reached the Base camp at 20:30. Unfortunately, the bad weather conditions and high possibility of avalanches blocked all activities of the rescue team.