An avalanche on the world's seventh-highest peak killed two Americans and a Sherpa guide who were climbing the mountain on the Nepal-Tibet border, the Tourism Ministry said Thursday.
Two others escaped the avalanche, said Dan McConnell, a spokesman for the expedition based in Seattle.Charles Schertz, 35, of Pittsburgh, Nancy Jackson of Federal Way, Wash., and Sherpa Nima Wanchu, 41, were found buried in the snow March 27 by other team members of the American Manaslu Expedition, according to McConnell and the Tourism Ministry. Nepalese officials said Jackson's passport gave her age as 43, but McConnell said his biographical materials listed her as 34.
The accident occurred at the 15,510-foot level of Mount Manaslu, a 26,775-foot mountain in the Himalayan range, McConnell said.