Although an Australian climber disappeared in the Indian part of the Himalayas, her expedition team was unable to return from an unclimbed remote mountain.
The Foreign Affairs Department said last night that it was providing consular assistance to the family of the killed Australian, who may have been one of the group of hikers missing in the (Nanda Devi) area of South Davi, India.
The woman is reported to be an experienced amateur climber in Sydney, Ruth McCance (Ruth McCanz.
According to local media reports, the eight-member expedition was led by British tour guide Martin Moran (Martin Moran.
India Today reported that the group's climbers were from Britain, the United States and Australia, and that the team also included a local tour guide from the Indian mountaineering association (Indian Institute of Mountaineering).
According to a May 12 post on fb by Molan Mountain (Moran Mountain), an adventure company, the expedition, with its ambition to climb Virgin Mary Peak, traveled a long way into the heart of the (Nanda Devi) area of South Davi.
The whole trip is expected to take about 24 days.
The expedition company Moran Mountain wrote on May 22: "This team has reached the second camp at an altitude of 5,000 meters."
"when this goal is achieved, they will try to climb a mountain that no one has ever climbed at an altitude of 6477 meters."
According to local media reports, India's local government has sent a rescue team to find the missing mountaineers.