Dead bodies from Mt. kanchenjunga not to be extracted

Taplegunj, May 31 – It has been decided that the bodies of the climbers who died in Kanchenjunga Mountain will not be extracted from the site of their death.

 

They will be left in the ice in Kanchenjunga after they died in the third week of May as more expense will be taken to lift them as snow was now melted.

 

It will be difficult to lift the bodies after snow melted and as the rescue team will be in risk of death, the trekking agency of the team and the relatives of the deceased decided not to lift them from the site.

 

The team for rescue has returned to base camp saying they could not rescue the bodies from the site. The agency had made an attempt to lift but was not possible to rescue, said Seven Summit Trekking Agency Manager Mingma Sherpa.

 

He said it will be risky for the rescuers themselves from this altitude as snow melting has begun from May second week, and will not be extracted as the rescuers themselves denied it.

 

Two Nepalese and three foreigners had died at an altitude of 7400 meters at No. 4 base camp of Kanchenjunga.

 

Those who lost their lives are Phu Dorjee Sherpa of Makalu-5 Sankhuwasabha district, and Bibas Gurung, Hatiyagola- 7 of Sankhuwasabha, and the foreigners are Hungarian citizen Peter Kiss, Zsolt Eross and Korean national Namsoo Park.

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