Posted on 06/03/2019 2:36:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A search team in the Indian Himalayas has spotted five bodies on the unnamed peak where eight climbers are believed to have gone missing a week ago.
Pithoragarh District Magistrate Vijay Kumar Jogdande told CNN Monday that the bodies appear to be partially buried in an avalanche on the peak in different locations.
The bodies were identified following analysis of photographs taken by a helicopter that conducted an air survey of the area earlier in the day.
The missing climbers -- four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and their Indian liaison officer -- went missing in the region of Nanda Devi East, one of the highest peaks in India at just over 7,400 meters (24,000 feet.)
The group was attempting to scale a previously unclimbed and unnamed peak believed to be about 6,477 meters (21,250 feet) high, according to Facebook posts from the group's expedition company. The alarm was raised a few days after they failed to return to camp.
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I suspect Fowl Play....................
This Everest situation is idiotic. I understand the Chinese really cracked down on letting people climb Everest from the Tibet side.
This didn’t happen in Turkey.
Somehow, someway I am betting there is a muslim involved...............
This wasn’t Everest, another unnamed mountain...............
A party of 12 had permission to climb Nanda Devi East, and these 8 split off at the base camp to go climb the unnamed peak, and the 4 who climbed Nanda Devi did not summit. A failure all around, aside from those 4 being alive.
It sounds as if the group of 8 (which included the expedition leader) intended to climb the unnamed peak all along and knew they would not receive permission.
Interesting.
That isn’t Everest, though it is in the Himalaya.
Worth the risk? They wouldn’t do it if it were not very risky.
...the bodies appear to be partially buried in an avalanche on the peak in different locations... four Britons, two Americans, an Australian and their Indian liaison officer... attempting to scale a previously unclimbed and unnamed peak believed to be about 6,477 meters (21,250 feet) high...
They're looking a little peaked. Thanks BenLurkin.
I ain’t lost nothin’ up there
It is the wealthy person’s equivalent to hanging off a bridge to tag it with graffiti.
The peak has been there for millions of years.
Why have the Indians not gotten around to naming it?
It’s a name that must not be spoken!
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