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11 Climbers’ Bodies Found on Nepal Peak

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<i> Associated Press</i>

A rescue team found the bodies of 11 members of a German expedition huddled together on a Himalayan mountain Sunday.

The trekkers were lying on a snowfield high on 20,100-foot Mt. Pisang “like a big ball,” said Gottfried Huber, who landed on the range by helicopter. The hikers apparently died Nov. 13, perhaps after falling from a ridge, he said.

The ill-fated expedition consisted of nine Germans, a Swiss and their Nepalese mountain guide.

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