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Read moreDetailsFive Russian mountaineers were killed while climbing in Nepal, a tourism official said on Tuesday (October 8, 2024), two days after the team lost contact while on the world’s seventh-highest mountain, Dhaulagiri.
Rakesh Gurung, from Nepal’s tourism department, said the team went missing late on the evening of October 6 during an attempt to summit the 8,167 metre (26,795 feet) high Himalayan peak.
“Five dead bodies were discovered by a helicopter rescue team,” Mr. Gurung told AFP. “They fell from 7,700 meters.”
He said one climber who quit the summit attempt had been rescued from the…
