Eight more bodies recovered from Himlung avalanche as death toll reaches 15

The victims were among 16 Nepali workers and support staff preparing routes and camps ahead of foreign climbers when the avalanche struck the 7,126-metre peak on September 26.

Search and rescue teams recovered eight more bodies on Thursday from an avalanche site on Himlung Himal in Narpa Bhoomi Rural Municipality-5, Manang. One high-altitude worker is still missing in the disaster.