Five climbers missing and presumed dead on Mount Kanchenjunga

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Five climbers missing and presumed dead on Mount Kanchenjunga

A South Korean and two Hungarian climbers, and two Nepalese guides, believed to have fallen while descending from summit

    Associated Press in Kathmandu
    guardian.co.uk, Friday 24 May 2013 16.16 BST    

Mount Kangchenjunga is the third-highest mountain in the world. Bad weather has hampered attempts to search for the climbers. Photograph: Frédéric Soltan/Corbis

Five climbers, including two Hungarians and a South Korean, are missing and feared dead on the world's third-highest mountain.

They disappeared while descending from the summit of Mount Kanchenjunga on Monday. Bad weather has prevented a rescue helicopter from reaching their base camp.

A mountaineering department official, Dipendra Poudel, said the climbers had probably slipped or fallen at about 25,900 ft (7,900 metres).

The Hungarians have been identified as Zsolt Eross, 45, and Peter Kiss, 27; the South Korean climber is Namsoo Park, 47. Two Nepalese guides Phu Dorjee, 24, and Bibash Gurung, 25, are also missing.

Eross has scaled 10 of the world's 14 highest peaks and was the first from his country to scale Everest. Kanchenjunga is 28,162 ft high.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/24/five-climbers-missing-mount-kanchenjunga