Nepal earthquake: 2 Jamshedpur mountaineers return to Everest base camp

Jamshedpur: Mountaineers Hemant Gupta and Payo Murmu, who were stuck up at 22,000 ft height of the Himalayas on way to the summit on Aril 25 when the quack struck in Nepal, on Monday safely returned to the base camp. The information was given by Bachendri Pal, first woman conqueror of world's highest summit Mt Everest, after she received phone calls from the two mountaineers. The two mountaineers had left Jamshedpur in the first week of April to climb the highest peak.

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Pal said she had been constantly in touch with the team's handling agency which had informed her on Saturday night that both the mountaineers were safe and stuck up at Camp II. "I am happy that both our mountaineers as well as others who were stuck up at Camp II with them, have returned to the base camp," Pal said.

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They began their Everest expedition soon after they landed in Lukla in Nepal on April 6 and was supposed to reach the peak sometime around the second week of May.