Kathmandu, October 14
Rescue personnel have retrieved bodies of nine climbers, including four Koreans and five Nepalis, who were killed in a snowstorm on Gurja Himal, the lowest peak of Dhaulagiri Mountain Range, in western Nepal on Friday.
Earlier, it was reported that eight persons died in the incident. One was missing.
Of the bodies, eight are being taken to Kathmandu this afternoon. The ninth body belongs to a local of Gurja village, and it will be handed over the victim’s kin there, according to DSP Bir Bahadur Budha, Chief of the Myagdi District Police Office.
A Simrik Air helicopter had taken the bodies to the village.
The expedition team had left nearby Gurja village for the base camp on Sunday last week. After they could not be contacted for long, villagers had sent a search mission to the base camp on Friday.
The mission members had found the bodies at the base camp on the same day.
It was the first expedition on the 7,913 metre peak in past 10 years.
