NHS doctor’s body is recovered from Pakistan mountain

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The body of NHS doctor Asma Mushtaq, who died while attempting to summit Spantik peak in Pakistan, has been recovered. She deteriorated at high altitude but chose to continue despite feeling unwell. Mushtaq was a keen mountaineer and pursued medical studies in Pakistan and the UK.

The body of an NHS doctor who died while scaling one of Pakistan’s highest peaks has been recovered.Asma Mushtaq, who had worked in obstetrics and gynaecology at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, set out for the summit of Spantik on 6 August with a party of five other mountaineers.At around 6400 m her health deteriorated severely, and the other members of the group decided to turn back. Mushtaq chose to continue towards the summit despite feeling unwell. Her family told The BMJ that they last spoke to her on 8 August.On the night of 19 August her brother, Abu Bakar, received a call informing him that her condition had deteriorated. The following day the family were told that she had died.Mushtaq earned her MBBS from Gujranwala Medical College in Pakistan and moved to Britain on a scholarship through an exchange programme in 2022. She was a keen mountaineer and had already...