Australian woman, Ruth McCance, has been formally identified as one of the  8 victims who has died while climbing India’s second tallest mountain, the Nanda Devi.

The 8 climbers,  four from Britain, two from the United States and one each from India and Australia went missing on the 31st of May, after they failed to return to base. 

Vijay Kumar Jogdande, an Indian district official explained,  seven dead bodies were brought from base camp to the Pithoragarh district.