Two mountaineers were killed when they slipped and plunged 300 metres near the peak of the snow-covered Illimani peak in the Bolivian Andes, officials said Monday. The bodies of Christoph Semeradt, a 44-year-old German, and his Bolivian guide Genaro Flores were recovered at an altitude of 6,100 metres at a site known as Condors' Nest, officials said, according to DPA. Initial reports said Semeradt slipped and fell, dragging Flores along with him. "It is a difficult place. We have lost other mountaineers there in the past," said Walter Laguna, the president of the Andean Mountaineering Club. The German embassy in La Paz said it awaiting instructions from Semeradt's family about returning his body to Germany.
