Five members of a Russian expedition who went missing while attempting to climb Nepal’s Mount Dhaulagiri have been found dead, Russia’s embassy in Nepal told CNN on Tuesday.

Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world’s seventh highest peak have been killed, an expedition organizer in Nepal said Tuesday.

Five Russian mountaineers were killed while climbing in Nepal, a tourism official said on Tuesday, two days after the team lost contact while on Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh-highest mountain. Rakesh Gurung of Nepal's Tourism Department said the team went missing late on the evening of October 6 during an attempt to summit the 8,