2 missing US climbers Gil Weiss and Ben Horne found dead
Searchers have found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who perished on their way down from a glacier-capped Peruvian peak in mid-July.
Rescue co-ordinator Ted Alexander says a three-man team found the bodies of 29-year-old Gil Weiss and 32-year-old Ben Hoe on Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range on Saturday.
He says they died in a fall off a ridge after summiting the 20,000-foot (6,100-meter) west peak.
Alexander estimated the men fell 300 metres (nearly 1,000 feet).
He says it should not be too difficult to remove the bodies of Weiss, from Queens, N.Y., and Hoe, of Annandale, Virginia, and that can hopefully be done on Sunday
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