Tourism Ministry authorities on Tuesday confirmed the death of two Indian climbers who had been missing on Mount Everest.
The ministry’s official, Gyanendra Shrestha, told newsmen that their bodies were spotted by another team at the Triangle, close to the summit.
Shrestha said: “It is such a great height that it would be impossible to try and carry the bodies down.
“Attempts were on to retrieve the bodies of three other climbers who had died on the mountain in a separate incident.”
The bodies of a Dutchman, an Indian and an Australian, who had died due to altitude sickness on Saturday, would be easier to retrieve since they were located at a lower elevation of 8,600 feet.
According to the Nepal Mountaineering Association, as at Tuesday, 450 people had climbed the mountain successfully during this year’s climbing season.
Report says Everest expeditions resumed in 2016 after disasters had closed passage the previous two years.
dpa/NAN.