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In this July 2012 photo provided by Galit Weiss, climber Gil Weiss, right, and Ben Horne pose for a photo as they climb the Palcaraju Peak in Peru.  (AP Photo/Courtesy of Galit Weiss)

Searchers have found the bodies of two U.S. mountaineers who perished on their way down from a glacier-capped Peruvian peak in mid-July.

Rescue co-ordinator Ted Alexander says a three-man team found the bodies of 29-year-old Gil Weiss and 32-year-old Ben Horne on Palcaraju in the Cordillera Blanca range on Saturday.

He says they died in a fall off a ridge after summiting the 6,100-meter west peak.

Alexander estimated the men fell 300 metres.

He says it should not be too difficult to remove the bodies of Weiss, from Queens, N.Y., and Horne, of Annandale, Virginia, and that can hopefully be done on Sunday.