The bodies of five South Korean climbers.. who were killed while trying to scale a 7-thousand meter high mountain in the Himalayas... arrived home on Wednesday.<br />Yoon Jung-min has more. <br />The bodies of five South Korea climbers who were killed in a snowstorm in the Himalayas last weekend have been returned home.<br /><br />The bodies arrived at Incheon International Airport at 5 a.m. on Wednesday on a flight from Kathmandu, Nepal.<br />The caskets were carried by families and friends of the deceased who were waiting at the cargo terminal.<br /><br />The group of climbers, led by famous mountaineer Kim Chang-ho, were found dead Saturday near their base camp on Mount Gurja in western Nepal.<br />The five climbers were struck by a snowstorm while pioneering a new trekking route to the 7-thousand meter Mount Gurja.<br /><br />49 year-old Kim... who has some thirty years of mountaineering experience... was the first South Korean to scale all 14 peaks above 8-thousand meters without using supplemental oxygen. <br /><br />Kim also showed great loyalty to his colleagues. Back in 2011, He volunteered to find a colleague who was lost on Annapurna and never made it back.<br />In 2013, he was stricken with grief when he lost one of his group members while descending an 8-thousand meter mountain in the Himalayas<br /><br />A joint memorial for the five mountaineers will be held on Friday.<br />Yoon Jung-min, Arirang News. <br />
