LIMA, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Three foreign mountain climbers were found dead in Peru's Cordillera Blanca on Tuesday, state news agency Andina said.
The men, two Chileans and a Russian, had been missing for 10 days among the snowy peaks of the mountain range in the country's northwest Ancash region.
The bodies were recovered from a snowy peak known as Piramide, and identified as Cristobal Bizzarri (23), Gabriel Navarrete (32) and Alexander Maznev.
"They died due to an avalanche of ice blocks," the agency said.
Given the inaccessibility of the site, their bodies were not expected to reach the city of Caraz, in the region's Huaylas province, until Wednesday.
The Cordillera Blanca features several peaks as high as 6,000 meters above sea level, with Piramide rising to 5,885 meters.
