The search for three Japanese mountaineers and their Nepalese guide believed caught in an avalanche in Nepal will resume this week, according to the chief of the Japan Professional Guide Association.
Michihiro Kadoya, the association's chairman who has been in Katmandu since Tuesday, said the search for Toshio Yamamoto, 36, Daisuke Honda, 32, Osamu Tanabe, 49, and their Nepalese guide, Pasang Gelu Sherpa, 47, will resume Friday or Saturday, weather permitting.
The four men have been missing since an avalanche struck the slopes of Mount Dhaulagiri on Sept. 28.
According to Kadoya, two to three professional Japanese guides and about five Nepalese Sherpas will fly to the mountain's base camp and resume the search.