Five Bosnian climbers confirmed dead on Mount Elbrus

Five climbers from Bosnia have lost their lives on Mount Elbrus, Europe's highest peak, in a tragedy that reminds the world how thin the margin is between ambition and the mountain's indifference. Rising 5,642 meters in the Caucasus range, Elbrus draws those who seek the continent's highest point, yet conceals within that promise the full weight of altitude, weather, and chance. Their deaths, still under investigation, join a long human record of reckoning with summits that do not yield to preparation alone.