Discovery of dead Himalayas pair brings 'closure' after 30 years

Friend Steve Aisthorpe told remains of Kristinn Rúnarsson and Þorsteinn Guðjónsson found

A Scottish mountaineer who spent weeks searching for two friends who disappeared in the Himalayas more than 30 years ago has spoken of finally feeling a sense of closure after their bodies were recently found.

Steve Aisthorpe, 55, was with Kristinn Rúnarsson and Þorsteinn Guðjónsson on an expedition to Pumori on the Nepal-Tibet border when he fell ill partway through the expedition and told his friends to go on without him.

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