KATHMANDU: 5 Russian climbers who’ve been lacking on Nepal’s Mount Dhaulagiri for the reason that weekend had been discovered useless on the world’s seventh tallest mountain, their mountain climbing firm stated on Tuesday (Oct 8).
There had been no contact with the climbers, scaling the 8,167m peak with out Sherpa guides, since Sunday night time, after they reached a top of seven,700m.
A search and rescue helicopter noticed the our bodies of all 5 at an altitude of about 7,600m on the mountain in western Nepal, stated Pemba Jangbu Sherpa, a senior official of the corporate offering logistics assist to the Russian staff.
Additional particulars weren’t instantly out there.
“They may have been tied to the identical rope,” stated Pemba, who goes by his first identify. “One in every of them might have slipped on the slope and all 5 fell collectively.”
One other member of the staff, who was exhausted and unable to stroll, has been evacuated and is being handled at a hospital in Kathmandu, the capital, added Pemba, whose firm is known as ‘I Am Trekking and Expedition’.
Mountaineering in a key tourism exercise in Nepal, house to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains, offering essential employment and earnings.
