A helicopter mission to retrieve the bodies of five climbers spotted on a Himalayan mountain has again been postponed due to strong turbulence.
It will be"at least two months"before rescuers can retrieve the five bodies once monsoon hits,as wind,rain and snowfall once again postpones aerial recovery.
A search effort led by the Indian air force will resume on Tuesday.
Police in southwestern Switzerland say a 24-year-old British mountain climber who was coming down from the country's famed Matterhorn fell to his death in pre-dawn darkness,after a chunk of rock came loose during the descent.
Australian Ruth McCance is missing along with seven other climbers in India's Himalayas.
Ruth McCance's husband last heard from his wife a week ago when she sent him a message that read:"OK at base camp."
Indian authorities are searching the area around Nanda Devi,the second highest mountain in India,after a mountaineering group did not return to base camp last Sunday.
The snow line on Everest is higher than it was just a few years ago. Areas once coated in dense ice are now exposed. With climate change comes a grim dilemma.
After human traffic jams at the top of Mount Everest and an aggressive,unruly atmosphere that has been likened to"a zoo",Nepalese officials say they will act.
At 11 and counting,the death toll on Everest this year is the highest in years,after Nepal issued a record number of climbing permits.
Gilian Lee's against-the-odds survival comes amid a horror climbing season,with 11 mountaineers reported dead or missing so far during the northern hemisphere spring.