Purja had written on X on Monday that he was close to becoming the first person to climb all 14 "super peaks" twice without oxygen. "Broad Peak, I ask for nothing but safe passage up and back down," he wrote. Rescuers have been scouring the difficult, high-altitude mountainside for days by air and ground after contact was lost with the team on Thursday. "My loving brothers...We will take you back home to see (your) families," Mingma G Sherpa, a mountaineer involved in the rescue, posted on Instagram on Saturday. "This is an unthinkable loss for our mountaineering community and for the nation," Fur Gelje Sherpa, the President of Nepal's mountaineering association posted on social media.