Quebecer missing after Nepal avalanche

A cardiologist from north of Montreal is one of six missing after an avalanche in Nepal.

According to CBC News, the avalanche swept away climbers on Mount Manaslu leaving at least nine dead and six missing including Dr. Dominique Ouimet.

Ouimet’s sister Isabelle told Radio Canada on Sunday that her brother was on his ninth mountaineering expedition. He has already climbed Mount McKinley in Alaska and Mount Aconcagua in Argentina the two highest peaks in North and South America respectively.

Amongst the victims are a Nepalese guide and a German man while the missing include five French nationals and an Italian.

Ouimet was using the expedition to raise money for his hospital in St-Jerome. Mount Manaslu is the eighth highest peak in the world at 8156 metres.

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