<p class="title">Eight-time Mount Everest climber Pemba Sherpa has gone missing while returning with a team of mountaineers after successfully scaling the 7,672 metre-high Saser Kangri peak in the Karakoram range.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to police sources, the seasoned mountaineer from Darjeeling fell into a crevasse on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pemba's wife told reporters that the family lost all communications with him since July 13 and she is hoping for a miracle to see her husband again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Last Friday, a representative of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) brought the news that Pemba Sherpa is missing," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to local police sources, an ITBP team has started conducting searches at the spot from this morning.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Darjeeling administration is also keeping a close watch on the developments.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are worried about Pemba. He was a skilled person," Animesh Basu of Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation (NAF) in Siliguri said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The team of mountaineers that Pemba was leading had begun its journey from Kolkata on June 20.</p>
<p class="title">Eight-time Mount Everest climber Pemba Sherpa has gone missing while returning with a team of mountaineers after successfully scaling the 7,672 metre-high Saser Kangri peak in the Karakoram range.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to police sources, the seasoned mountaineer from Darjeeling fell into a crevasse on Friday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pemba's wife told reporters that the family lost all communications with him since July 13 and she is hoping for a miracle to see her husband again.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Last Friday, a representative of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) brought the news that Pemba Sherpa is missing," she said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">According to local police sources, an ITBP team has started conducting searches at the spot from this morning.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Darjeeling administration is also keeping a close watch on the developments.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We are worried about Pemba. He was a skilled person," Animesh Basu of Himalayan Nature and Adventure Foundation (NAF) in Siliguri said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The team of mountaineers that Pemba was leading had begun its journey from Kolkata on June 20.</p>