Heavy snow hampering search for trekkers: S. Korea ambassador “We request the Nepali government to try to break the ice, so that we can look more deeper... That is our hope and expectation,” says Park Young-sik, South Korean ambassador to Nepal, as rescuers continue their search for four South Korea trekkers and three Nepalis swept away and buried by an avalanche in the Himalayas, with chances of finding them alive fading. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES