Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. REUTERS/Monika Deupala/File Photo
Kathmandu: Five Russian mountaineers were killed while climbing in Nepal, a tourism official said Tuesday, 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,” Gurung told AFP. “They fell from 7,700 meters.”
He said one…