Nepal’s Mount Dhaulagiri, the seventh-tallest mountain in the world, has found five Russian climbers dead, according to their hiking company on Tuesday ( 8 October ).
There had been no touch with the climbing, scaling the 8, 167m top without Sherpa guidelines, since Sunday evening, when they reached a level of 7, 700m.
According to Pemba Jangbu Sherpa, a senior national of the firm providing logistics support to the Russian group, a search and rescue helicopter located the body of all five at a height of about 7,600 meters.
Additional details were not immediately accessible.
” They might have been tied to the same rope”, said Pemba, who goes by his first name. One of them” had had slipped on the hill,” and all five fell together.
Another member of the team, who was exhausted and unable to move, has been evacuated and is being treated at a hospital in Kathmandu, the capital, added Pemba, whose business is named’ I Am Trekking and Expedition’.
Mountain climbing in a crucial tourism action in Nepal, house to eight of the country’s 14 highest hills, providing important jobs and income.