The World - News from July 19, 1988

An American mountain climber died earlier this month while scaling a peak in the Himalayas between Pakistan and India, his partner reported in Islamabad. “I’m dying. I just want to get warm,” were the last words of Gary Silver, 40, of Spokane, Wash., according to Gary Speer, 36, part of the expedition to Gasherbrum 2, a 26,400-foot peak in the Karakoram Range. At 19,000 feet, Silver became sick, Speer said, and returned to camp. Speer continued climbing but was forced back by high winds. Meanwhile, he said, a recovered Silver teamed up with a Canadian doctor, Roland Willenbrock. The two were trapped by a blizzard, and Silver lost consciousness and died due to lack of oxygen to the brain.