Tragedy in Canada: Find the bodies of three of the world's best mountaineers

The bodies of Austrian climbers David Lama, Hansjörg Auer and American Jess Roskelly were found Sunday by Canadian authorities in Howse Peak, in the western part of the country, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.
The three mountaineers, considered among the best in the world, disappeared last Tuesday when an avalanche surprised them while they were trying to climb the eastern face of Howse Peak.

Parks Canada, the agency responsible for the management of Banff National Park, where Howse Peaks is located, said in a statement that "on Sunday, April 21, the bodies of the three climbers were found." "Parks Canada extends its sincere condolences to his family, friends and loved ones," the organization added.

Canadian authorities were unable to recover the remains of the three mountaineers because of the risk of new avalanches and poor weather, high winds and precipitation. The Howse Peak is a 3,395-meter mountain considered one of the most challenging in the Canadian Rockies. The Howse Peak Road was opened only in 1999.

The first one on Wednesday alarmed Roskelly's father, also a well-known mountaineer, John Roskelley, when his son did not contact him, as expected, the day before. Roskelly warned Parks Canada of lack of communication with mountaineers. The agency sent a helicopter the same day to fly over the area and detect obvious signs of avalanches and climbing equipment.

Although Parks Canada does not want to confirm this to the media, John Roskelly
He told Thursday at the spokesman's review that the helicopter personnel had also spotted the body of a mountaineer. Roskelley also told the newspaper that her son, Lama, 36, and Auer, 28, "are dead, are not missing."