{"id":15294,"date":"2025-07-31T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15294"},"modified":"2025-07-31T00:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T00:04:02","slug":"german-olympian-dead-on-laila-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=15294","title":{"rendered":"German Olympian dead on Laila Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Germany&#8217;s two-time Olympic biathlon gold medallist Laura Dahlmeier was confirmed dead aged 31 on Wednesday after being hit by falling rocks on a Pakistani mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The dangerous nature of the site made rescue efforts &#8220;impossible&#8221;, her agency said in a statement issued on Wednesday, which confirmed her death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rescue efforts to recover her failed and the operation was suspended,&#8221; the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened around midday on Monday at an altitude of 5,700 metres (18,700 feet) on Laila Peak in the Karakoram range, according to a statement from her team on her official social media pages.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s two-time Olympic biathlon gold medallist Laura Dahlmeier was confirmed dead aged 31 on Wednesday after being hit by falling rocks on a Pakistani mountain. The dangerous nature of the site made rescue efforts &#8220;impossible&#8221;, her agency said in a statement issued on Wednesday, which confirmed her death. &#8220;Rescue efforts to recover her failed and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}