They made their way to the nearest village where they came across a French-Israeli expedition planning to climb Ratna Chuli, a nearby mountain.

The team immediately informed the French embassy in Kathmandu and aborted their climb due to poor snow conditions.

[1] In July 2006, the rescue team, including five surviving members of the French expedition, returned to the accident site and recovered the remaining bodies.

[4] The death toll from this accident surpassed the previous record number of climbers killed by an avalanche in Nepal.

In April 1972 an avalanche on Manaslu killed ten Nepalese, four Korean climbers and one Japanese cameraman when it slammed into their tents at 3:15 am.