2 U.S. climbers missing in Peru found dead

In this July 2012 photo provided by Galit Weiss, climber Gil Weiss, 29 (left), and Ben Horne, 32, pose as they climb the Palcaraju Peak in Peru. Rescue coordinator Ted Alexander said the bodies of Weiss and Horne were found on Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range on Saturday, July 28, 2012. / AP Photo/Courtesy of Galit Weiss

(AP) LIMA, Peru - Searchers have found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who perished on their way down from a glacier-capped Peruvian peak in mid-July.

Rescue coordinator Ted Alexander says a three-man team found the bodies of 29-year-old Gil Weiss and 32-year-old Ben Horne on Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range on Saturday.

He says they died in a fall off a ridge after summiting the 20,000-foot west peak.

Alexander estimated the men fell nearly 1,000 feet.

He says it should not be too difficult to remove the bodies of Weiss, from Queens, N.Y., and Horne, of Annandale, Virginia, and that can hopefully be done on Sunday.

[pammmmmm]

So sad when people with so much of a love for life and the outdoors perish...my condolances to their families.

[tmonta67]

Newster, after seeing your many juvenile and useless comments on other threads, I can only conclude that you have no life, no friends, and no social contact other than your computer. There's got to be a hotline for that somewhere; look it up.

[kbbpll]

It always happens on the descent. That's why Mallory is certain to have been the first to summit Everest. :)

Condolences to the friends and families, and no offense, but I'm curious why these two make the top news when 6 others have also died on this peak this year.

[ffoulkes2009]

The 6 others were probably front page stories wherever they are from.