KUALA LUMPUR, April 11 ― The search and rescue (SAR) team managed to get the coordinate of the last phone call made by the Malaysian amateur climber, Dennis Lee Thian Poh who was reported missing while crossing the Pokhara-Mustang route in Western Nepal today.
Malaysian Embassy Counsellor/Charge d'Affaires in Kathmandu, Fadli Adilah said the phone call was made by Lee late afternoon today that would further narrow down the search area for today.
“We are on positive and high hopes since all the respective search parties are continuing their effort as soon as this morning,” he told Bernama when contacted from here, today.
A team of 15 Nepalese policemen is spearheading a SAR operation to locate Lee, with the assistance of villagers and deployment of three sniffer dogs since yesterday.
Lee, 47, had joined eight colleagues from the Philippines to scale the Annapurna circuit in Nepal.
The group only became aware of his disappearance at the Khopra Danda Track in Ghorepani area on Sunday, on the first day of their circuit climb. ― Bernama
