Sydney climber McCanes. (Facebook pictures)
Earlier, an expedition led by British climber Moran (Martin Moran) disappeared in (Indian Himalayas), the Himalayas, according to the Associated Press and Reuters. The search for the missing began last week and ended on Sunday with a five-hour operation. On Sunday, Indian would-be military soldiers found seven bodies in the Himalayas, one of whom is believed to be Australian climber McCanes (Ruth McCance).
Officials say the police are still looking for the eighth missing person.
The quasi-military India-Tibet Border Police Force (Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force) led the transport of seven bodies to the town of (Pithoragarh), (Uttarakhand) Pitolagar, Northern Akander.
Vitek Kumar Pandey, the Indian border police force, said that the 20-member Indian-Tibetan border police force team, on foot last week, arrived in the location of the suspected missing person on Sunday.
"after five hours of action, they found the bodies of seven climbers," Pandy said.
He said the bodies, including an Indian and a female climber, had not yet been officially identified.
On May 31, experienced British captain Moran, Sydney woman McCanes, three Britons, two Americans and an Indian contact disappeared in the Himalayas and were unable to return to their stronghold near (Nanda Devi) in Nandawi.
Prior to this, the Indian authorities confirmed that the other climbers were McLaren (John McLaren), Sewell (Rupert Whewell) from the United Kingdom and Penn (Richard Payne), from Sudekun (Anthony Sudekum) and Beemer (Ronald Beimel), from the United States, as well as Pandi (Chetan Pandey)., the contact person from the Indian mountaineering Foundation (Indian Mountaineering Foundation).
Moran Mountain, the company that organized the expedition, said mountaineers tried to climb a 6477-meter-high nameless peak near South Nanda Dewey and encountered a "massive avalanche" on the way. (Zheng Peiyan)
