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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have fallen on the world's seventh-highest peak have died. An expedition organizer confirmed the deaths. They were climbing Mount ...

Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world's seventh-highest peak have died, an expedition organizer in Nepal said Tuesday. The Russians were climbing 26,788 ...

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world’s seventh-highest peak have died, an expedition organizer in Nepal said Tuesday.