Two Japanese climbers were killed by an avalanche on Sunday as they were climbing Annapurna One in the Himalayas in Nepal, Kyodo News reported Monday.

The agency quoted a mountain climbing association based in central Japan's Aichi Prefecture as saying that the two victims were Hideji Nazuka, 49, and Michio Sato, 43.

Sato was leading a four-member team up the 8,091-meter peak. If they had succeeded, Nazuka would have become the first Japanese to scale 10 of the world's 14 highest mountain peaks.

Source: Xinhua