Exec search specialist one of missing climbers in Himalayan mountain tragedy

Rupert Whewell, managing director of executive search firm Bateman Gray, has been named as one of eight climbers feared dead in the Indian Himalayas.

The BBC reports a helicopter crew have spotted five bodies on Nanda Devi, India’s second highest-peak, believed to have been hit by an avalanche on 27 May, the day after the group of missing climbers was last heard from.

Those missing include Whewell, John McLaren, University of York lecturer Dr Richard Payne from the UK; US nationals Anthony Sudekum and Ronald...

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