Kathmandu, October 8: Five Russian mountaineers died in an attempt to climb Mt Dhaulagiri.

Rakesh Gurung, the Director of the Department of Tourism, stated that their bodies were discovered at an elevation of 7,600 meters on Tuesday morning.

The group, consisting of 14 Russian climbers, had arrived in Nepal around three weeks prior for an expedition organized by IAM Trekking and Expeditions.

Eight members of the group lost contact during their ascent on Sunday night.

Gurung informed that efforts to send a helicopter for a search operation on Monday failed due to the poor weather.

However, a helicopter from Heli Everest successfully located two climbers at Base Camp and one at Camp I during the Tuesday morning search.

The deceased climbers are identified as Aleksandr Dusheyko, Oleg Kruglov, Chistikov Vladimir, Nosenko Mikhail, and Shpilevoz Dmitri.

People’s News Monitoring Service.

Source : https://www.peoplesreview.com.np/2024/10/08/five-russian-mountaineers-die/