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(KATHMANDU, Nepal) — Original avalanches falling on a in model trekking route in Nepal forced rescuers to prevent their glance four South Korean trekkers and three Nepali guides who were believed to were swept by a snowslide, an decent said Sunday.
Some 200 climbers were rescued from somewhat about a capabilities of the trekking path and flown to security by helicopters over the weekend, Division of Tourism decent Meera Acharya said.
Acharya said that novel, smaller avalanches made it unhealthy for rescuers to reach the region the place the missing trekkers were closing considered.
A 2d search mission is being planned for the missing South Koreans and native guides but it completely would enjoy to appear ahead to snow and ice to cease falling sooner than the operation resumes.
The Friday avalanche hit alongside the in model Mount Annapurna circuit trekking route following rains and snow earlier in the week.
The South Korean Ministry of International Affairs said the avalanche hit at an altitude of three,230 meters (10,600 feet) sooner than noon Friday. It said five somewhat about a South Korean participants of the identical crew were obtain and taking refuge in a hotel.
The missing trekkers – two females of their 30s and 50s and two men of their 50s – were academics who were staying in Nepal for volunteer work, the ministry said, in step with the Yonhap data company.
The company said South Korea has dispatched an emergency response crew of two govt workers alongside with officers from an training body and a tourism company to Kathmandu to back in the quest operations. The South Korean consul primarily primarily based fully in the Nepalese capital departed for the accident place to demand the continuation of the rescue operation, Yonhap reported.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in vowed the upmost efforts to win the missing trekkers in a Fb message posted on Sunday, the company said.
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