Contact restored with Russian mountaineers in earthquake-hit Nepal - club
MOSCOW. April 25 (Interfax) - A Russian mountaineering club has resumed contact with a Russian eight-member mountaineering party in the Himalayas after losing touch with the team because of Saturday's powerful quake in Nepal, the club manager said.
"The party guide, Vladimir Kotlyar, called and said that none of the eight people was hurt, that currently they were safe," Sem Vershin (Seven Peaks) club manager Anastasiya Kuznetsova told Interfax.
Six members of the group had planned to climb Island Peak while the other two were going to move to one of the Everest base camps.
Kuznetsova said there were another several parties in Kathmandu currently that had planned climbing but had been stymied in the city by the quake. "They've called and said they were inside buildings, some of them in an elevator, during the jolts. They're scared but all of them are alive," she said.