The Italian mountain climber who has been rescued after an avalanche hit the world's second highest peak Friday is under the care of a rescue team and waiting for a helicopter to take them out of K2.

Marco Confortola, 37, was the last rescued among the 22 mountain climbers washed away by the avalanche. Some of the mountaineers fell to their deaths, others froze, while 11 are still missing and presumed dead by now.

According to Pakistani authorities the 11 confirmed dead were three South Koreans, two Nepalis, two Pakistanis and one French, Irish, Serbian and Norwegian.

The rescue party made up of an American climber and Pakistani porters brought Confortola down after the Italian spent four nights on the cold mountain. Because of his prolonged stay and exposure to ice, Confortola has frostbite on his feet, but is out of danger, according to an official of the Pakistan Tourism Ministry.

While waiting for the chopper, Confortola will stay at the base camp where the helicopter is expected to rescue him Wednesday morning if the weather improves. Two Dutch mountaineers with frostbites, identified as Wilco Van Rooijen and Cas Van de Gevel, have been airlifted Monday and brought to a hospital in Skardu.

Although K2 is next to Mt. Everest in height, it is considered more technically challenging than the world's tallest peak in the Himalayas. The accident site is called Dead Zone because a climber's body which gets stuck at the areas under freezing conditions with little oxygen has almost no chances of survival.