Italy says communication between rescue groups, native officers, international diplomatic missions ‘extraordinarily difficult’.
Printed On 6 Nov 2025
Seven Italian climbers are lacking in Nepal’s Himalayan mountains after heavy snowstorms and avalanches have killed at the least 9 individuals in latest days.
Three Italian climbers had been amongst 5 foreigners and two Nepali guides who had been confirmed killed on Monday when an enormous avalanche smashed by way of a base camp close to the summit of Mount Yalung Ri in Nepal’s Himalayan vary, in line with stories.
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Italy’s Ministry of International Affairs stated in an announcement on Wednesday that native authorities had confirmed the deaths of the three Italian climbers, however there “stays no information of seven different Italian nationals” who’ve been reported lacking.
“In latest days, a number of areas of the Nepalese Himalayas have been affected by a sequence of avalanches which have struck quite a few mountaineers, together with Italian residents,” the ministry stated.
“Communication between native authorities, rescue groups, and the diplomatic missions of the international locations concerned continues to be extraordinarily difficult,” the ministry added.
Nepal’s Division of Tourism director, Himal Gautam, stated there was no instant details about the destiny of the seven individuals reported lacking.
Nepal’s Himalayan Occasions newspaper reported on Wednesday that the our bodies of an Italian and a French climber had been recovered from the location of the avalanche that struck a gaggle of 12 individuals at their base camp on Mount Yalung Ri on Monday.
The seven individuals killed on the camp included three Italians, two Nepalis, a German and a French climber and, in line with the newspaper, 5 others had been rescued, together with three Nepalis and two French nationals.
7 climbers, together with 5 foreigners killed in Yalung Ri avalanche pic.twitter.com/eM424vMQjp
— The Kathmandu Put up (@kathmandupost) November 4, 2025
French survivor Isabelle Solange Thaon, 54, who misplaced her husband, Christian Manfred, within the avalanche on Yalung Ri, advised The Related Press information company that she was fortunate to have survived with one other French climber, Didier Armand.
“We had been fortunate,” Thaon stated from her hospital mattress within the capital Kathmandu, including that she had jumped over rocks and swam within the snow of the avalanche till assist arrived to drag them out.
“Sadly, Christian died … as a result of rocks hit his head,” she stated of her late husband.
Mount Yalung Ri, situated within the Rolwaling Valley of northeastern Nepal, is a 5,600-metre (18,370-foot) peak thought-about appropriate for novice mountaineers.
On Friday, in western Nepal, contact was misplaced with two Italian climbers, who had been later confirmed to have died whereas trying to scale the 6,887-metre (22,595-foot) Panbari mountain.
Nepal was hit final week by unseasonal rains and heavy snow as a result of affect of Cyclone Montha, which left many trekkers and vacationers stranded on standard Himalayan trekking routes.
Nepalese authorities have issued alerts to trekkers and climbers within the nation, which is house to eight of the world’s 10 highest peaks, together with Mount Everest, and that are visited by many international and native trekkers and climbers annually.
