Five Russians climbers die in a fall on Nepal’s Dhaulagiri peak, the world’s seventh highest mountain
The Hindu
Five Russian climbers die on Dhaulagiri peak in Nepal, raising concerns about safety in the climbing industry.
Five 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 mountain, and had "been admitted to hospital" in the capital Kathmandu.
Hundreds of people from around the world travel to the Himalayas each year for the autumn climbing season in Nepal.
Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest peaks and foreign climbers that flock to its mountains are a major source of revenue for the country.
The rapid growth of the climbing industry has created fierce competition among companies for business, and also raised fears that some are cutting corners on safety.
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