An Italian climber has gone missing from Mount Annapurna, officials said.
Giampaolo Corona lost contact with the base camp from Thursday afternoon while descending from the peak’s summit, according to Bhishma Bhattarai of the Department of Tourism.
“He was at an altitude of 7,600 meter before going out of contact. We are trying to get more information,” he told Everest Chronicle.
Corona, who was doing an alpine-style climb without bottled oxygen and Sherpa aid, had reached the summit on Thursday together with at least a dozen other climbers from two expedition agencies.
Officials said that Seven Summit Treks was working to conduct aerial and ground search to find the missing climber.
In 2019, Malaysian climber Wui Kin Chin was rescued alive from camp V of the same mountain after being stranded for nearly two days alone without food and oxygen. He later died during medical treatment.
The 8,091-meter (26,545-foot) Annapurna is the 10th tallest in the world.
