DHAULAGIRI, Oct 8 : A five-strong group of Russian climbers, who went missing on October 6 while trying to ascend Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal, have been found dead, Mingma Sherpa, director of the Heli Everest travel company involved in the search operation, said on Tuesday.
The bodies of Alexander Dusheyko, Oleg Kruglov, Vladimir Chistikov, Mikhail Nosenko, and Dmitrii Shpilevoi were located by a helicopter at an altitude of 4.4 miles, Mingma Sherpa told the Himalayan Times. The climbers are believed to have fallen from an altitude of 4.7 miles.
The group left the high camp at 6 am local time (01:00 GMT) and last made radio contact at 11 am, the managing director of I AM Trekking & Expedition, Pemba Jangbu Sherpa, told the newspaper.
“Time is now against us! The weather is getting worse, and we have only two days to evacuate the bodies… After that, the weather will get so bad that the evacuation will be impossible,” the Mountaineering and Climbing Federation of Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region, chaired by Dmitrii Shpilevoi, said on social media, also confirming the deaths of two of its members, Shpilevoi and Nosenko.
At 26,795 feet above the sea level, Mount Dhaulagiri is the world’s seventh-highest peak, located in the Himalayas mountain range in central Nepal.
(UNI)
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