A Brazilian paraglider Raineri Rodrigo Chadded was killed on Thursday during a paragliding accident in Pakistan’s Gilgit Baltistan.

The incident occurred in the Shigar district’s Askole.

Shigar Deputy Commissioner Waliur Rehman Hami confirmed the paraglider’s death to Aaj News.

Pakistan is home to five of the world’s 14 mountains higher than 8,000 metres – including K2, the world’s second highest.

In 2013, more than 8,900 foreigners visited the remote Gilgit-Baltistan region, according to government figures, where most of the Karakoram range is located, with the summer climbing season running from early June to late August.

Fifty-five-year-old Chaddad Raineri Rodrigo was part of a seven-member team trekking to the base camp of K2, but was the only one who chose to paraglide.

“When he started paragliding his parachute burst and he fell,” local police spokesman Muhammad Nazir told AFP over the phone from Shigar, where the accident happened.

The team also included two people from France, two from the United States, and one each from Bulgaria and Switzerland.

The man’s body has been recovered and will be returned to Brazil after consultations with his family, Nazir said.

Three Japanese climbers also died in two separate incidents earlier this summer climbing season.

(With input from AFP)