Avalanche Claims Seven Lives in Nepal
A 15-member climbing party—comprising five foreign mountaineers and ten Nepali guides—was engulfed by the avalanche at the base camp of Yalung Ri Peak located in Dolakha district.
"Seven bodies have been recovered, including five foreigners and two Nepalis. Three are Americans, one is Italian, and another Canadian," Gyan Kumar Mahato, chief of the district police, told media, adding that four are injured and four missing.
Rescue helicopters were dispatched to the disaster site but remained unable to land due to hazardous weather conditions preventing aerial operations, Mahato stated.
The tragedy unfolds during Nepal's autumn climbing season, which extends from September through November—a peak period for mountaineering expeditions in the Himalayan nation.
By Friday, Nepali authorities had issued climbing permits to 1,450 mountaineers seeking to scale 59 different peaks throughout the current fall season.
Search and rescue operations continue as teams work to locate the four individuals still unaccounted for, though deteriorating weather conditions are severely hampering recovery efforts in the remote mountain terrain.
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