DOUBLE Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier has died aged 31 following a horror mountaineering accident.
The former German biathlete’s management announced her heartbreaking death today.
Dahlmeier was climbing in the Pakistani Karakoram Mountains with a rope partner on Monday when falling rocks hit her at roughly 18,700 feet.
A rescue team had been deployed to find the three-time Olympic medallist, but was unable to locate her until Tuesday morning.
Now Dahlmeier’s team have revealed she has been found dead after the search continued.
A statement told that Dahlmeier has been assumed dead for two days and that recovering her body was not possible due to “currently prevailing difficult conditions with rockfall and a change in the weather on Laila Peak.”
Military helicopters had tried to reach the area of her injury but were unable to do so after the conditions at the altitude were described as “extremely difficult”.
Climbers had planned an attempted rescue before it was confirmed that Dahlmeier has died.
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