Eight climbers feared to have died on a Himalayan mountain took an untested route without permission and retrieving their bodies will be a high-risk operation, Indian officials said Tuesday. Five bodies have been spotted on the slopes of India's second highest mountain, Nanda Devi, but rescuers
1 / 4Hundreds of climbers from across the world visit India to scale mountains across the Himalayan chain Hundreds of climbers from across the world visit India to scale mountains across the Himalayan chain Eight climbers feared to have died on a Himalayan mountain took an untested route without permission and retrieving their bodies will be a high-risk operation, Indian officials said Tuesday.
But Moran's expedition company announced on Facebook on May 22 after reaching a second base camp that they planned to attempt"an unclimbed peak" 6,477 metres high. Authorities will have to organise"a very high-risk and high-altitude operation" to retrieve the bodies, Vivek Kumar Pandey, a spokesman for the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, told AFP."In recent times such a high-altitude retrieval has not been carried out in Indian mountains," he added.
Aerial pictures shot on Monday showed four bodies together and another buried at a distance on a ridge that was swept by an avalanche. Three more were believed to be nearby. "They took a different route for which they didn't have permission. It is their adventurism which cost them their lives," the source said.
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