Search resumes for the body of veteran Sherpa

Sherpa Chhewang Nima


KATHMANDU: A team of expert mountain rescuers have begun scouring the slopes of a peak in Nepal searching for a veteran Sherpa guide who has scaled Mount Everest 19 times and went missing last month, officials said Tuesday.


Laxman Bhattarai of Nepal's tourism ministry said the team of seven rescuers has already reached 23,380-foot (7,130-meter) Mount Baruntse and has begun to search on foot.


Chhewang Nima, 43, and another Nepalese guide have not been seen since they were swept away Oct. 23 by an avalanche while they were fixing ropes near the summit for a team of Western mountaineers who had hired them. The others in the climbing party were unharmed.


The accident occurred at an altitude of 23,100 feet (7,045 meters).


Nima has climbed Everest 19 times and was just one climb short of the record set by fellow Nepalese Sherpa Apa, who has scaled the world's highest peak 20 times.


Chhewang, a father of two daughters, climbed Everest twice earlier this year and had also climbed many of the Himalayas’ other highest peaks. Baruntse, in eastern Nepal, was first climbed by a New Zealand expedition in 1954, one year after the 8,848-metre Everest peak was first conquered.

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