The officials said that they had been told that those missing include climbers from Britain, the United States, Australia and India. The rescue effort began on Saturday when the climbers failed to return to base camp. It may take days to trek to the area where they were last known to have been, said Vijay Kumar Jogdanda, the top civil servant in Pithoragarh district of India's mountainous Uttarakhand state. The climbers went missing on the Indian side of the Himalayas near the end of a climbing season that has been particularly deadly this year. Indian and international news reports said that the team was led by British guide Martin Moran.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 02, 2019 04:18 UTC