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Nepal sends chopper to Tibet for missing Bulgarian mountaineer’s search

Mountaineer Boyan Petrov

Kathmandu, May 15

For the first time ever, Nepal has sent its chopper to Mt Sisapang in Tibet, the autonomous region of China, to search Bulgarian mountaineer Boyan Petrov, who went missing for the past 10 days while climbing the mountain without help of any expert.

China has allowed Nepal to carry out the search operation with its own helicopter, informed Mohan Lamsal, Managing Director of Makalu Adventure Pvt Ltd.

Petro left the first base camp on April 29 and should have returned by May 5. He, however, failed to show up. “He did not return till May 5. Hence, we started searching for him,” stated Lamsal.

“We first sent the rescue team to carry out the search. But, due to snowfall, they returned. We, then, tried to send the helicopter through diplomatic channels,” he added.

Earlier, Petrov had scaled 10 mountains including Mt Dhaulagiri without support from the expert team.

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