A rescue team for climber Ko Mi-young has left for the Himalayas to retrieve the body of the climber who died while descending a mountain in the Himalayas.

The two-person rescue team, including the Korean Alpine Federation’s board director Yoo Han-gyu, will fly to Thailand and then to Pakistan to join rescue workers already on-site. The search party will include some 15 South Korean and foreign climbing experts.

Ko’s family will watch the progress in the rescue operation and then decide when to leave for Islamabad.

Ko is one of the few female climbers to scale the 8,126-meter Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest peak among the 14 tallest Himalayan mountains.

She went missing while descending a mountain in the Himalayas on Saturday and was confirmed dead on Sunday.