KATHMANDU, Nepal—At least seven mountaineers were killed after their camp on a Himalayan peak in western Nepal was hit by a storm, police said on Oct. 13, in the country’s worst climbing disaster in two years.
Police official Bir Bahadur Budhamagar said villagers who reached the site at the base camp of Mount Gurja, a 7,913 metre-high peak (23,600 feet), on Oct. 13 spotted seven bodies in the mountain slopes. Nine climbers had been reported missing.
