Photo gallery: Hopes fade for missing climbers after Nepal avalanche
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In this photo provided by Nepalese airline Simrik Air, an injured victim, center, of an avalanche is rescued at the base camp of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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French tourists sit inside an ambulance after being rescued from an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in Kathmandu on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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In this handout photograph released by Nepalese helicopter aviation service Simrik Air, rescuers are pictured at a site following an avalance at the Mount Manaslu base camp in Gorkha Districtst on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Rescue team members carry out a victim of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu Base Camp on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An ambulance carrying victims of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu, airlifted from the Base Camp, heads for the hospital in Kathmandu on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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French national Claude Belmas, 52, left, and Armand Manel, 42, survivors of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, give their details at a clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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French national Armand Manel, 42, one of the survivors of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, is carried on a wheelchair at a clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
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French national Claude Belmas, 52, one of the survivors of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, receives treatment at a clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
In this photo provided by Nepalese airline Simrik Air, an injured victim, center, of an avalanche is rescued at the base camp of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
French tourists sit inside an ambulance after being rescued from an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in Kathmandu on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
In this handout photograph released by Nepalese helicopter aviation service Simrik Air, rescuers are pictured at a site following an avalance at the Mount Manaslu base camp in Gorkha Districtst on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AFP
Rescue team members carry out a victim of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu Base Camp on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An ambulance carrying victims of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu, airlifted from the Base Camp, heads for the hospital in Kathmandu on Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
French national Claude Belmas, 52, left, and Armand Manel, 42, survivors of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, give their details at a clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
French national Armand Manel, 42, one of the survivors of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, is carried on a wheelchair at a clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
French national Claude Belmas, 52, one of the survivors of an avalanche at Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal, receives treatment at a clinic in Katmandu, Nepal, on Sunday, Sept 23, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Rescuers scaled down a search on Monday for two French climbers and a Canadian missing in a Nepal avalanche which killed at least nine people attempting to scale one of the world's highest peaks.
Police said they had halted a helicopter rescue mission as hopes faded for the trio, part of a group hit by a wall of snow in their tents near the peak of the 8,156m Manaslu in the early hours of Sunday.
"We have now stopped helicopter rescue operations. Two French and a Canadian mountaineer are still missing. Sherpa guides are in the mountains searching for them," district police chief Basanta Bahadur Kunwar told AFP.
