a cremation service was attended by relatives of the men who took their ashes home to iceland .
steve aisthorpe , 55 , was part of an expedition to pumori on the nepal - tibet border with kristinn rúnarsson and thorsteinn gudjonsson who were last seen alive at a height of 21,650 ft on october 18 , 1988 .
their remains were found last 30 years .
the bodies were brought back to kathmandu , the capital of nepal , by a group of local climbers and a cremation service was attended by relatives of the men who took their ashes home to iceland .
mr aisthorpe , a mission development worker for the church of scotland , said the positioning of the ropes implied that his friends , who were both 27 , had either reached , or almost reached , the ridge at the top of the face when disaster struck .
aisthorpe said that rúnarsson ’s fiancee was pregnant with his child at the time of the tragedy and he now has a son who is 30 years old .
photograph : steve aisthorpe pa aisthorpe , a mission development worker for the church of scotland , said : “ the discovery of the remains of þorsteinn and kristinn after so many years have inevitably brought many emotions to the surface for all who knew and loved these wonderful guys .
rúnarsson and guðjónsson were last seen alive at a height of 21,650 ft on 18 october 1988 .
steve aisthorpe , 55 , was with kristinn rúnarsson and þorsteinn guðjónsson on an expedition to pumori on the nepal - tibet border when he fell ill partway through the expedition and told his friends to go on without him .