{"id":10637,"date":"2024-10-16T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T11:07:58","slug":"lifeless-bodies-of-russian-climbers-retrieved-from-dhaulagiri-peak-sent-to-kathmandu-for-post-mortem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/lifeless-bodies-of-russian-climbers-retrieved-from-dhaulagiri-peak-sent-to-kathmandu-for-post-mortem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifeless bodies of Russian climbers retrieved from Dhaulagiri Peak sent to Kathmandu for post-mortem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Myagdi, Oct 16: Five dead bodies of the Russian climbers which were retrieved from the Dhaulagiri Peak here earlier today have been transported to Kathmandu by air.<\/p>\n<p>District Police Office Myagdi&#8217;s Chief Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bharat Shrestha, said the lifeless bodies were collected from an altitude of 7,100 metres of the world&#8217;s seventh-highest peak (8,167 metres).<\/p>\n<p>A team of Sherpas led by Mingma Sherpa, the proprietor of Seven Summit Treks, Kathmandu picked up the bodies with the help of a high-altitude helicopter and brought them down to the Italian Base Camp of the peak before sending them to the TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj for post-mortem.<\/p>\n<p>The climbers had spent a night at the base camp before their ascent. They lost contact with authorities at 11:00 am on October 7 while at an altitude of 7,600 metres on the peak that is located at the Dhawalagiri municipality-14.<\/p>\n<p>They were confirmed dead on October 9. The expedition was organized by IAM Trekking &amp; Expedition for a total of 14 climbers, but nine decided to cancel their trip midway.<br \/>\nShrestha said the site is challenging for helicopter landings and cannot be reached on foot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myagdi, Oct 16: Five dead bodies of the Russian climbers which were retrieved from the Dhaulagiri Peak here earlier today have been transported to Kathmandu by air. District Police Office Myagdi&#8217;s Chief Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bharat Shrestha, said the lifeless bodies were collected from an altitude of 7,100 metres of the world&#8217;s seventh-highest peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10639,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10637\/revisions\/10639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}