The rescuers found a body of the ninth missing climber and all the nine bodies of climbers trapped on Elbrus last week will be sent by helicopter to Nalchik, the capital of the North Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The identity of the climbers are established: Zubarev M., Antonov A., Puzyrev E., Lavchinov A., Hrubkov M., Buhvostov D., Dmitriev A.
The names of lost Ukrainian climbers: Vyacheslav Zorja, Nikolay Horuzhenko and his son Alexander and Maxim Melnik.

Two groups of 12 climbers from Russia and Ukraine went missing on Elbrus late on May 9 at 5300 meters.
On May, 8 the contact with the team of eight Russian climbers ascending Elbrus was lost.
The bodies of seven climbers and their tents and belongings were found on May 11 at the saddle of Elbrus (5300 meters). On May 15 the rescuers found a body of one more missing climber.
According to the words of Nikolay Antonov - the only survived climber - the team started to descend at 20.00 on May 9 because of weather deterioration. They joined the Ukranian team and split up into several groups of four climbers. The last bivy was near Pastukhova rocks.