Indian Air Force helicopters on June 3 spotted the bodies of five of the eight mountaineers who went missing on their way to the Nanda Devi East peak in Uttarakhand. Bodies of five mountaineers were sighted near an unscaled peak adjoining the Nanda Devi East peak during an air search by Air Force helicopters on June 3, Pithoragarh District Magistrate V.K. Also Read Foreign climbers go missing on way to Nanda Devi peak in UttarakhandApparently the mountaineers were killed in an avalanche while ascending an unscaled peak near the Nanda Devi East peak after they failed to scale the latter, he said. The bodies were sighted after an air search was conducted over the peak on the basis of clues provided by four climbers from U.K. rescued during a sortie undertaken on June 2. Further rescue operation will be conducted after we get instructions,” the District Magistrate said.

Source: The Hindu June 03, 2019 14:26 UTC