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Nine Months Buried in the Snow: Nepal Just Recovered Five Climbers Lost on a Peak Almost No Trekker Has Heard Of

Rescuers located the bodies of three foreign climbers and two Nepali nationals on August 8, 2026 — nine months after an avalanche buried Yalung Ri's…

By Laxman Rawal · Aug 11, 2026

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Nine months after an avalanche swept a Himalayan base camp, Nepali search teams have finally found the five climbers the mountain took. On August 8, 2026, a search party hired by a hiking company spotted five bodies at 5,630-metre Yalung Ri, deep in the…

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What this means for trekkers

It is worth being precise about what this story is not. It is not a story about the Everest Base Camp trail, the Annapurna Circuit, or any of the routes that carry the vast majority of Nepal's international trekkers every season. Those trails run through a…

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