A Spanish mountaineer died on Saturday when he was trying to peak at the Chukima Go peak (6,258 meters high) in the Nepalese Himalayas, rescue services reported that moved the body to Kathmandu on Sunday. "The 44-year-old mountaineer died after his rope was untied while trying to climb the mountain . As a result, he must have slipped into the snow," said Kami Sherpa , director of the Annapurna Treks and Expedition agency, in charge of recovering the body and rescue another Spanish mountaineer, who was unharmed.

Sherpa, who speaks Spanish, explained that he was asked for help by two other climbers of Spanish nationality who were trying to climb the same mountain. "They asked me to rescue them. I don't know who they were or to which expedition agency they belonged," Sherpa noted, who after 24 hours managed to locate the survivor and his deceased companion and transfer them by helicopter to the Nepalese capital, about 250 kilometers away. .

The director of the Department of Tourism of Nepal, Meera Acharya, explained to Efe that neither of the two mountaineers had climbing permits . "The investigation is ongoing. Initial information suggests that they were climbing the mountain illegally, " said Acharya.

According to the source, only two Spaniards had received permits to climb the Chukima Go this fall, "but the names of the deceased climber and the survivor were not on the department's list."

The Spaniard alive, who had been admitted to a hospital in Kathmandu, has already been discharged.

"We have seized the survivor's passport and will proceed to take legal action against him," concluded the director of the Department of Tourism.

During the autumn climbing season in Nepal, which ends in mid-November, the Nepalese authorities had issued permits to 998 foreign mountaineers .

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