Weeping family members receive corpses from South Korean climbers.
Weeping family members receive corpses from South Korean climbers.
Family members dressed in black funeral outfits cried in pain Wednesday while the bodies of five South Korean climbers came home from Nepal where they had died in a storm last week.
The coffins covered with white sheets were carried out from a terminal at the Incheon International Airport before being loaded into vehicles heading to the funeral homes in Seoul, Uijeongbu and Busan.
The five South Koreans and four Nepalese guides died when a storm hit the base camp in Gurja Himal on Friday night. Due to remote and more bad location weatherRescuers only arrived in the area a day later and it took them two days to recover their bodies and take them to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Gurja Himal is a pristine mountain and rarely climbed, but the experienced leader of the team had focused on unproven routes in recent years. The team leader, Kim Chang-ho, in 2013, became the first South Korean to reach the 14 Himalayan peaks in more than 8,000 meters (26,250 feet) without using supplemental oxygen.
"What can a living person say to the deceased?" An emotional Lee In-jung, president of the Asia-Alpine Association, told reporters at the airport. "They will climb the Himalayas again (in the afterlife)."
The Korean Alpine Club had previously identified the other Koreans as Yu Yeong-jik, Im Il-jin, Jeong Jun-mo and Lee Jae-hoon. According to reports, Yu was in charge of the equipment for the team. I am a filmmaker specialized in mountaineer documentaries. South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Jeong, a CAC member, was not part of Kim's climbing team, but was visiting the others at base camp.
The death toll suffered the deadliest escalation disaster in Nepal since 2015, when 19 people died in Mount Everest Base camp due to an avalanche caused by an earthquake that devastated the country. The previous year, an avalanche on the Everest base camp killed 16 Nepalese Sherpa guides.
Nepalese officials said they would press the government to improve weather warnings to minimize future deaths.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, an enthusiastic hiking enthusiast who visited Nepal in 2016, expressed his condolences in a Facebook post on Sunday: "A snowstorm has brought the nine climbers to the mountains forever. , but his courage and fighting spirit are unleashed a new route can never be buried. "
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