1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster

[2] The disaster, which happened during the 1934 climbing season, included nine climbers who died in what was, at the time, the single deadliest mountaineering accident in history.

In 1934, German climber Willy Merkl led a well financed expedition to Nanga Parbat (located in Jammu and Kashmir, British India; present-day Gilgit-Baltistan, northeastern Pakistan),[3] with the full backing of the newly-established Nazi Germany.

Early in the expedition Alfred Drexel [de] died, probably of high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE).

"[6] Jonathan Neale wrote a book about the 1934 climbing season on Nanga Parbat called Tigers of the Snow.

The book attempts to narrate what went wrong on the expedition, set against mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys.