GILGIT – Rescue teams have found bodies of two foreign mountaineers, daysafter they went missing at the world’s second highest peak, K2, in northernPakistan.
The climbers have been identified as Australian national Matthew Eakin andCanada’s Richard Cartier, reports said that the bodies were discovered at alocation between Camp 1 and Camp 2 of the savage mountain on Tuesday.
Eaking went missing when he was descending from Camp 3 to Base Camp on July22 while Cartier lost contact on July 19 when he was present between thesetwo points.
A ground search operation was conducted to trace the missing climbers, butthey were not found. Another operation was launched on Tuesday with thehelp of drone cameras and their bodies were found near Camp 1.
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Reports said that the mountaineers have fallen on rocks and lost theirlives. Process has been initiated to repatriate their bodies to their homecountries.
