They found the bodies of the best mountaineers in the world, missing after an avalanche in Canada.

The dead bodies of famous climbers who disappeared Tuesday after the discovery of an avalanche in Western Canada were discovered Sunday.announced Canada's federal parks agency.

L & # 39; American Jess Roskelley, 36, and the Austrians Hansjörg Auer, 35 years old and David Lama, age 28, disappeared while attempting to climb a challenging summit in Banff National Park, the eastern face of Howse Peak, in the province of Alberta.

One day after his disappearance, the authorities conducted an aerial search of the three mountaineers, qualified "professional and highly experienced mountain athletes", considered the best in the world, according to specialists.

"On Sunday, April 21, the bodies of the three mountaineers were found," he said in a statement. Parks Canada, who offered his condolences to the relatives of the victims.

The research had to be suspended due to new avalanches and too dangerous weather conditions. And they had been presumed dead on April 18. "For now, the Canadian authorities can not recover the remains because of new avalanches and high winds and precipitation that increase the risk of additional avalanches," said the official communication last Thursday.

Jess Roskelley was the son of John Roskelley, considered one of the best mountaineers of his generation.. Father and son together made the climb to Everest in 2003. By this time, Jess Roskelley was only 20 years old. He became the youngest mountaineer to conquer the top of the world.

The American newspaper The spokesperson's review he had pointed out that Jess Roskelley had promised his father to contact him on Tuesday, but that this communication did not occur and the alarms sounded from there. As a result, he told the newspaper that his son and the Austrian mountaineers Lama and Auer "were dead, and not gone," which discouraged hopes.

The road used by the three mountaineers to attack Howse Peak was only opened in 1999 because of its difficulty.