A small addition to the news of the tragedy:

http://pamirtimes.net/2013/06/29/nanga-parbat-massacre-chinese-survivor-shares-his-ordeals/

The first article states the climbers were stormed in their camp and killed, and a couple paragraphs down it says the killers stormed their hotel. So where were they really killed? Or did I miss something?

it's not a "hotel" more like camping

A tragedy, and also a very worrying portent for the future. Off course there's no possible justification for killing foreign climbers in retaliation for drone strikes, but unfortunately this wasn't an irrational act. Nor was it an isoIated incident. It's part of an ongoing wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan which include attacks on Pakistan's Shia minority - hence presumably the murder of base camp cook Ali Husein along with 10 climbers. For some more background, have a look at my article http://www.himalayamasala.com/himalaya-blog/massacre-nanga-parbat

BTW Nickua, I think the photo you've posted shows Fairy Meadow, which was wrongly given in some media reports as the scene of the attack. It actually happened at Diamir Base Camp, which is a rather more remote location. The stuff about the attackers storming a hotel was just garbled media reporting - foreigners attacked, no more information, so it must have been a hotel mustn't it, better fill in some details and make a coherent story.

And we'll never hear about this from any US news media

Steve Swenson has an excellent write up of the murders which places it in a larger historical framework. http://steveswensonsblog.blogspot.com/

Grampahawk wrote:And we'll never hear about this from any US news media

Last time I looked, the New York Times, the Washington Post and USA Today were US media. The story appeared in all three.