Rescuers searching for 10 mountaineers who went missing in Pakistan after an avalanche on Broad Peak, one of the world’s highest mountains, recovered four bodies on Friday, the authorities said.

Among the victims were Nadhira Alharthy, one of Oman’s most successful mountaineers, and an American climber, Sarah Mallory Geis, according to a statement shared by local officials on Friday evening. Another was Pur Bahadur Gurung, who was part of a separate team being led by the British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja.

The identity of the other recovered climber is not yet public. The rescue operation has been suspended as of Friday evening because of bad weather and is scheduled to resume on Saturday, according to the government of Gilgit-Baltistan, the region where Broad Peak is located.

It added that the rescue team had “spotted a few dead bodies of the climbers through drone footage.”

In addition to Mr. Purja and Ms. Alharthy, the missing climbers included Sohail Sakhi, a renowned Pakistani alpinist who was guiding the American climber, Ms. Geis.

Mr. Purja was leading a team of three toward Broad Peak’s summit when the avalanche struck his group, along with other climbers, according to Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, the director of Elite Exped, Mr. Purja’s guiding company.

Another team of three climbers, including Ms. Alharthy, was part of a separate expedition under Seven Summit Treks. There were two other teams, including one comprising the American climber, Ms. Geis, and Mr. Sakhi; and another with a Chinese climber, Wang Zhong, and a Nepali guide, Kili Pema Sherpa.

Nimsdai Store, Mr. Purja’s mountaineering gear company, said it was “supporting the ongoing rescue efforts” and working to establish what had happened. “We ask for patience while verified information becomes available,” it said in a statement.

Broad Peak is near Pakistan’s border with China in the Karakoram mountain range. It is the world’s 12th highest mountain, with a summit of 8,047 meters (26,400 feet) above sea level. It lies next to K2, the world’s second-highest mountain.

Mr. Purja, 43, is one of mountaineering’s most influential figures. After serving in the British Special Forces, he climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in record time in 2019, a project that was chronicled in a 2021 Netflix documentary.

He repeated the feat in 2024, this time without supplemental oxygen, and dedicated it to two American women and their Nepali guides who had died a year earlier in an avalanche on Shishapangma, one of the 14 peaks.

On Monday, Mr. Purja wrote on social media that Broad Peak was the penultimate mountain he needed to summit in his second attempt to climb all 14 peaks without oxygen.

Mr. Purja has been accused of sexual abuse by female climbers, including a former client of Elite Exped, his guiding company. A lawyer for Mr. Purja has denied the allegations.

Elite Exped has played an influential role in commercial climbing on the world’s highest peaks. A 2019 photograph that Mr. Purja took of climbers waiting to reach Mount Everest’s summit contributed to a debate about overcrowding on the mountain.

Ms. Geis, the American mountaineer, was attempting to climb Broad Peak for the first time according to a social media post from Moving Mountains, a Pakistani mountaineering agency. Ms. Geis and Mr. Sakhi had climbed Mera Peak, reaching the summit of 6,476 meters earlier this year, according to Ms. Geis’s Instagram profile.

Mr. Sakhi is a renowned Pakistani alpinist and high-altitude photographer from Hunza, in the mountainous region of Gilgit-Baltistan, who has climbed K2. Earlier this month, Mr. Sakhi climbed Nanga Parbat — the world’s ninth-highest mountain at 8,126 meters — in a solo, oxygen-free expedition, according to Moving Mountains.

In one of her Instagram posts from last year, Ms. Geis said about Pakistan, “This gem of a country should be at the top of any adventurer’s destination list.”

Ms. Alharthy, whose body was recovered on Friday, was the first Omani woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. A geography teacher, according to her website, she described herself as a “small village girl who embraced her inner adventurous spirit and embarked on a remarkable journey of self-discovery.”

Zia ur-Rehman contributed reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan.