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One Missing Climber Found Dead in Himalayas
By Kang Hyun-kyung
Staff Reporter
One of the two climbers who went missing in the Himalayas has been found dead, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Tuesday.
A Nepalese search team aboard a helicopter found the body and took a picture of it, a ministry official said.
They cannot confirm who the dead person is at the moment as it will take a day at least to identify the body, the official said.
Bad weather conditions made it difficult for them to conduct the mission, according to the ministry.
The discovery of the body came a day after two South Korean climbers, Yoon Chi-won, 40 and Park Haeng-soo, 27, went missing, while descending from a Himalayan peak.
The two were members of a six-man expedition team from the state-run Korea Expressway Corp.
The climbers reached the summit of Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest peak at 8,150 meters, east of Annapurna, on April 23.
Four others, including Kim Hong-bin, the leader of the team, managed to return to a base camp, the ministry said.