Family mourns lost climber in Nepal

The family of Australian mountaineer Sue Fear have finally accpeted that she is dead.

A colleague of the Australian mountaineer Sue Fear says her family has accepted that she is dead.

Ms Fear fell into a crevasse while descending Mount Manaslu in the Himalayas on Tuesday.

Experts say there is no hope of finding her alive and there is not the technology to retrieve the body from the deep crevasse.

In 2003 Sue Fear reached the summit of Mt Everest.