One Missing Climber Found Dead in Himalayas

On Tuesday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced that one of the two South Korean climbers Yoon Chi-won, 40 and Park Haeng-soo, 27 who had went missing while descending from a Himalayan peak has been found dead.
The climbers reached the summit of Manaslu, the world’s eighth-highest peak at 8,150 meters, east of Annapurna, on April 23. 
The two climbers were members of a six-man expedition team from the state-run Korea Expressway Corp.
Four others, including Kim Hong-bin, the leader of the team, managed to return to the base camp.
The official said that at least it will take a day to identify the body since at the moment they cannot confirm the dead body.
The official also s

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