Five South Koreans and four guides die at their base camp on Mount Gurja
Five South Korean climbers and their four Nepali guides have been killed after a storm devastated their base camp in the Himalayas, local police and hiking officials have said.
The record-breaking climber Kim Chang-ho was among those killed in Nepal’s worst climbing accident for two years.
Police official Bir Bahadur Budhamagar said locals had helped rescuers retrieve the nine bodies from near their base camp on Mount Gurja, a 7,193-metre (23,600ft) peak about 135 miles (215km) north-west of Kathmandu.
“The bodies of all five Koreans and four Nepalis have been identified,” Budhamagar told Reuters from Myagdi district where the accident took place.
