Two Koreans in Mont Blanc...Three days later, he was found dead near the summit.

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Two South Koreans, who were rescued and lost contact with each other in Mont Blanc, France, were found dead three days later.

The dead Koreans are a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s who are members of the Korean Mountaineering Association, who are believed to have suffered a distress accident due to bad weather.

Reporter Jeong Yu-shin's report.

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Mountain helicopters are busy traveling to and from the summit to find missing mountaineers.

Members of the mountaineering group, including two Koreans, went on a search after receiving a report that they had lost contact at the top of Mont Blanc on the 7th.

French rescue authorities who were dispatched found two bodies of two Koreans near the summit of Mont Blanc at around 1:15 p.m. local time on the 10th.

The place where it was found is a slope 100m away from the top near the location where the disappearance was reported on the 7th.

The dead Koreans were a man in his 50s and a woman in her 40s, respectively, and five members of the same mountaineering club and an accident while visiting the Chamonix-Montblanc area.

Two Italian mountaineers who were also missing were also found dead.

Local media reported that they appear to have died of exhaustion and hypothermia caused by worsening weather conditions.

Four members of the Korean Mountaineering Association, including them, climbed Mont Blanc on the 7th.

The other three, who were not accompanied on the climb, asked the local consular cooperation officer for help when they lost contact.

Two of them were dramatically rescued by helicopters at an altitude of 4,100 meters the next day, but two others were sadly rescued.

Local authorities will investigate the details of the deaths and hand over the bodies of the dead to the group.

The Korean Embassy in France has informed the bereaved family of the recovery of the body and plans to support the necessary procedures.

This is YTN Jeong Yu-shin.


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