Body of Czech climber Sedláček recovered from Himalayas after 12 years

The body of Czech climber Milan Sedláček, who died in the Himalayas in 2012, was removed from the mountains during a recent clean-up operation regularly organized by the Nepalese authorities.

The BBC News website reported on Saturday that the Nepalese army had found Sedláček's identity documents on one of the bodies. Three other bodies and one skeleton were also retrieved during the operation.

Sedláček, then 50, was part of an expedition led by Leopold Sulovský, the first Czech climber to summit Mount Everest, died while descending from the summit of Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest mountain.