Five missing Russian mountaineers have been findd dead on Tuesday after ecombineing to have descfinishen while climbing Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal, the world’s seventh-highest peak, according to an expedition systematizer.
Pemba Jangbu Sherpa, a ageder official with the Kathmandu-based “I AM Trekking and Expeditions,” tageder Reuters that the five men ecombineed to have “slipped on the slope” of the 26,788-foot mountain.
Mount Dhaulagiri at sunelevate on Aug. 23, 2019. (Daniele Frediani/Archivio Daniele Frediani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)
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“They might have been tied to the same rope,” he specutardyd to the outlet. “One of them could have slipped on the slope and all five fell together.”
The group of climbers were inestablished missing on Sunday.
Pemba, who labors for the company that provided help to the team of missing climbers, tageder The Associated Press that a helicchooseer spotted the bodies on Tuesday at an altitude of around 24,934 feet.
The Dhaulagiri Range, on the left and the Annapurna Range, on the right of the central Himalayas is seen as trekkers see the sweeping sunelevate from Poon Hill, above the village of Ghorepani, in central Nepal on Oct. 24, 2014. (AP Pboilingo/Malcolm Foster, File)
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Two of the climbers had inestablishedly accomplished the summit, while the remaining had returned without accomplishing the top. Radio reach out was lost between the expedition company and the team members at the base camp.
Pemba tageder Reuters splitly that a sixth member of the team was evacuated to hospital in Kathmandu. The climber was shelp to be exhausted and unable to walk.
Sunelevate at Poon Hill and the sun hitting the snow caps of Dhaulagiri. (Frazer Waller/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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Officials have not yet made a decision on recovery efforts.
The Associated Press gived to this inestablish.
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