The helicopter had three crew, and a Tajik translator, and climbers from Austria, Switzerland, Russia, France, Belgium, Germany and Great Britain.
Davlat Habibov, the director of the International Mountaineering Centre Alp-Mashkov, where the climbers were based, said the climbers had picked up by a helicopter in good weather about 2:00 p.m. in the village of Vir, in the Shugnan district. The helicopter crashed in the Gund valley about 50 miles east of Khorog, the provincial capital of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan (GBAO) region, near the Afghan border.
Read the report at Climbing.com.
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