Laura Dahlmeier, a two-time Olympic gold medal-winning German biathlete, died after a mountaineering accident in Pakistan on Monday. She was 31.
Her death was reported by ZDF, a German broadcaster that had employed her as an expert biathlon commentator, and confirmed by Pakistani officials.
The accident occurred around noon on Monday, at an altitude of about 18,000 feet at Laila Peak in the Karakoram Mountains in the Hushe Valley region of northeast Pakistan, said Karrar Haidri, an official at the Alpine Club of Pakistan, a group that promotes mountaineering. Faizullah Firaq, a spokesman for the regional government of Gilgit-Baltistan, confirmed the death.