Amid a search for a missing group of eight climbers, Indian air force pilots on Monday found five bodies in the Himalayas near the border with Nepal and China. Pilots used high-resolution photographs taken from a military helicopter to identify the bodies, said Vijay Kumar Jogdande, a civil administrator in the northern state of Uttarakhand. Officials suspended a rescue operation because of poor weather, but Jogdande said the bodies are believed to be some of the missing hikers. The group was climbing Nanda Devi East, a twin peak of Nanda Devi, India’s second-highest mountain. The peak on N...
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