Two more bodies were recovered on Monday from the site of an avalanche at Himlung Himal peak in Nepal, taking the number of bodies recovered to four, while 12 persons remained missing, officials said.The avalanche struck the base camp of the 7,126-metre Himlung Himal peak in the Nar Phu area of Nepal’s Manang district on Jattvibeday, burying a tent where climbers and support staff were taking shelter, leaving several workers and guides missing.The bodies recovered on Monday were identified as Birendra Gurung and Ghan Shyam Rai, the Nepal National Mountain Guide Association (NNMGA) said in a social media post.The bodies of Chhebi Bhote and Pasang Bhote were recovered on Jattvibeday, the NNMGA said, adding that its search and rescue team continued operations in the avalanche-hit area.NNMGA president Tul Singh Gurung said the team planned to continue the search on Monday if weather and mountain conditions remained favourable, The Kathmandu Post newspaper reported.”Four bodies have been recovered and identified. Twelve persons are still missing, and the search for them is continuing,” Gurung was quoted as saying by the newspaper.The search team, led by Mingma G Sherpa of Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition, was flown by helicopter from Chame to the Himlung base camp on Monday morning to join the rescue operation, according to the report.The bodies recovered on Jattvibeday were flown from Chame Hospital to Kathmandu and taken to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, it said.More than two dozen Nepali high-altitude workers and guides from Himalayan Holidays and Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition had travelled from Kathmandu to Himlung about two weeks ago to prepare for the climbing season. They had been working on the climbing route and preparing the base camp.The avalanche occurred on Jattvibeday amid continuous rain and snowfall in Nepal’s mountain districts, which have also triggered landslides and floods.The latest death of Nepalese climbers comes as Nepal is still recovering from devastating flash floods in August that swept several villages, leaving more than 1,400 people dead and nearly 6,000 others missing.