The remains have been discovered “pretty much in the same area where the” disappeared, according to the local police were conducted.
Le Monde with AFP
The bodies of three French mountaineers missing in Nepal since October 26, after an avalanche in the Everest region, have been found, said Monday, November 8, the Nepalese police. “The professional relief team has transported to Lukla [South-East of Nepal] the bodies of the three French mountaineers missing,” said Rishi Raj Dhakal, inspector and spokesperson for the District of Solukhumbu District. The remains were discovered “pretty much in the same area where the research” of the three missing, had it previously reported.
After two days of interruption, the operations had taken over Friday to find Louis Pachoud, Gabriel Miloche and Thomas Arfi, missing as a result of an avalanche during their climbing of the west face of the Mingbo Eiger, culminating at 6,070 meters altitude. Ang Norbu, Sherpa and Chief of the Research and Rescue Operation, had specified his side that his team, made up of five mountain guides, had to be reached Saturday by experienced international mountain guides from France.
Aid of the French Federation of Alpine Clubs and Mountain Clubs
Members of the “Excellence National Mountaineering”, Elite Formation of the French Federation of Alpine and Mountain Clubs (FFCAM), young mountaineers were part of a team arriving at the end of September, in the Khumbu region and Everest, with the aim of climbing different peaks at about 5,000 meters and 6,000 meters, south of Ama Dablam (6,814 meters).
“The hope of finding survivors is now almost zero,” said the FFCAM last Monday. The last phone contact with young people from their bivouac went to October 26, according to the Federation. “Helicopter recognition sent by the FFCAM on Sunday, October 31 in the morning as well as the overview of their way on Monday 1 in November have allowed to locate their traces up to 5,900 meters on the edge Who leads to the summit. At this altitude, rescuers were able to see the triggering an avalanche, “added the FFCAM.
Nepal reopened in September to foreign mountaineers, providing quarantine people vaccinated. The Pandemic of Covid-19 led last year the total judgment of the country’s country of 30 million, devastating its economy, which depends strongly on it.