The family of Derbyshire mountaineer Nigel Vardy are waiting to make contact with him after a severe blizzard hit a mountain range close to where he is climbing.
Mr Vardy - known as Mr Frostbite - left his home in Belper earlier this month to climb Himlung Himal in Nepal.
The mountain is situated close to the Tibetan border in the Manaslu region, northeast of the Annapurna range where a deadly snow storm has killed at least 29 people.
The Foreign Office has said that they are not aware of any Britons being among the dead, however they have contacted the families of the climbers in the region who are waiting for news of their loved ones.
Mr Vardy, who is climbing with the husband and wife team of Jamie and Clare Glazebrook, of Sutton Scarsdale in north Derbyshire, has not been heard from for a number of days, however there are poor communications in the area.
Jamie is an old Raleigh International friend and the trio travelled to Ladakh in India in 2008 to climb a variety of peaks.
Nigel is the only Briton to climb the tallest peaks on the world's seven largest islands and his enthusiasm for climbing and exploring remote areas of the world continue unabated despite him losing parts of his fingers, his nose and all of his toes to severe frostbite in temperatures of minus 60C on Mount McKinley in Alaska in 1999.
