A five-member team of Russian climbers is all set to begin the final summit push on Mt Cho Oyu from Nepal side in a day or two, according to the expedition organizer.
Daniele Frediani/Archivio Daniele Frediani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty ImagesA top Russian climber is missing after falling into a crevasse while attempting to scale Mt Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh-highest mountain. Nadezhda Oleneva, 38, and two others were working to scale the mountain without a Sherpa or supplemental oxygen when she fell, The Himalayan Times reports. Oleneva was nearly 20,000 feet up the mountain at the time of the fall, with GPS indicating she took a nearly 1,600-foot pl
Russian Ambassador to Nepal Alexey Novikov told TASS in a phone call that on Sunday morning a search and rescue helicopter is planned to be urgently deployed to the incident area