Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Five missing Russian mountaineers have been located dead on Tuesday after appearing to have fallen while climbing Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal, the world’s seventh-highest peak, according to an expedition organizer.
Pemba Jangbu Sherpa, a senior official with the Kathmandu-based "I AM Trekking and Expeditions," told Reuters that the five men appeared to have "slipped on the slope" of the 26,788-foot mountain.
Mount Dhaulagiri at sunrise on Aug. 23, 2019. (Daniele Frediani/Archivio Daniele Frediani/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images) CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM "They might have been tied to the same rope," he speculated to the outlet. "One of them could have slipped on the slope and all five fell together." The group of climbers were reported missing on Sunday.
Pemba, who works for the company that provided support to the team of missing climbers, told The Associated Press that a helicopter spotted the bodies on Tuesday at an altitude of around 24,934 feet.