© Mingma Gyalje SherpaSearch team members use probe devices to locate the missing climbers.
A high-altitude search and rescue team recovered the bodies of three French climbers buried under two metres of snow, days after they had gone missing on the slope of a mountain hit by an avalanche in the Everest region.
Inspector Rishi Raj Dhakal, chief of the Solukhumbu district police office, told the
Post that the search team had located the bodies on Sunday. The bodies, however, were retrieved on Monday and airlifted to Kathmandu for postmortem, he said.
The three climbers—Thomas Arfi, Gabriel Miloche and Louis Pachoud—were reported missing on October 31.
According to reports, they had last made contact on October 26 via satellite phone from their camp.
They were apparently caught in an avalanche.
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