NEW DELHI: The bodies of seven climbers killed on India's second highest mountain were retrieved Sunday by a group of highly trained mountaineers, the border police said.

A 10-strong group of mountaineers from the paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) found the bodies near an unnamed peak on Nanda Devi East.

They "have been retrieved and taken to a nearby site," ITBP spokesman Vivek Kumar Pandey told AFP.—AFP