Four climbers have died in the past four days while climbing the peaks of Mount Everest in Nepal, including a vegan university lecturer from Australia.
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Almost 400 of those climbers reached the summit since May 11. Climbing season was also canceled in 2014 when an avalanche killed 16 Nepalese guides.
Veteran mountaineer Jim Davidson was airlifted to the base camp of Mount Everest past year after the natural disaster and subsequent avalanche. On Friday, altitude sickness is believed to be the cause of the deaths of a Dutch climber, an Australian woman, and an Indian man. He even managed to send a tweet from it, but he began suffering from altitude sickness during his descent, the Associated Press reported.
25-year-old Phurba Sherpa fell to his death on Thursday.
A convenience store worker from CT scaled Mount Everest on Friday for a seventh time, breaking her own record as the most successful female climber of the world’s highest peak, expedition organizers said.
“One of the issues on that particular day was that you had a very large team of about 40 climbers on one team and they were going extremely slowly, and so other climbers got stuck behind them”.
Mr Subhash Pal was the third mountaineer to die on Everest in recent days after an Australian and a Dutch climber succumbed to altitude sickness.
Robert Gropel, Ms Strydom’s husband who was with her when she died, has been released from hospital in Kathmandu after recovering from high-altitude pulmonary oedema.
The sherpas who were attempting to carry the bodies were struggling because of the weather conditions on the slopes of Everest.
However, five climbers and a sherpa have died on the unpredictable slopes of the world’s highest mountain.
Last year, a devastating quake unleashed an avalanche that killed 19 people at Base Camp, effectively ending all attempts at the peak for 2015.
The four deaths were the first reported this year on Everest as the busy trekking season nears its end.
The Melbourne finance lecture’s family reportedly took some comfort in hearing her husband and fellow academic was holding her hand when she died, but they are angry with the climbing company for withholding details, News Corp reports.
Nearly 400 people have reached the summit since May 11, bringing the total number of climbers to reach the top since 1953 to more than 4,000.
After Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first conqueror in 1953, more than 4,000 climbers have reached the 29,035-foot-high peak.
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Professional climber Cory Richards documented his Everest climb last week on Snapchat, and spoke with “CBS This Morning”.
