The body of a woman who died climbing Mount Everest has reportedly been brought down from the mountain to be transferred to Kathmandu within days.
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Maria Strydom also showed signs of altitude sickness Saturday afternoon before she died, Australian media reported.
Dutch climber Eric Arnold’s body was brought to Camp 2 at 21,000 feet, while Australian climber Maria Strydom’s body is at Camp 3 located at 23,620 feet.
Three climbers have died and two others are still missing after attempting to climb Mount Everest, officials told ABC News this morning.
Rescuers searching for two Indian climbers missing on Mount Everest said on Tuesday (May 24) that there was little hope of finding the pair alive after losing contact with them over the weekend.
This climbing season is the first since an quake in Nepal a year ago that killed at least 18 people on Everest.
Belgian climber Jelle Vegt, who reached the peak on May 13, said that he made his attempt when there were fewer climbers on the narrow route snaking to the top, but that bad weather then forced many others to wait a few days.
It is not unusual for big numbers of climbers to reach the summit on a single day because only two or three windows of good weather in May enable climbing on the peak often hit with extremely harsh weather conditions.
But he is back climbing mountains again in Colorado, and is planning to go back to Everest in 2017.
Last Thursday, a 25-year-old Nepalese guide fell to his death.
An Indian climber passed away after reaching the top Sunday.
Trekking companies were anxious to see foreign climbers return to Everest after two years of disasters. Among them was the first combat amputee to climb the mountain, Marine Corps veteran Thomas Charles “Charlie” Linville, 30, who lost his leg to an IED in Iraq in 2011.
He survived the quake and avalanche at base camp in 2015, which shut down the mountain for last year’s climbing season, The Washington Post reports.
Husband and wife contracted altitude sickness and decided to make their descent while the rest of the group continued to the summit.
Strydom and her husband were attempting to climb the seven summits, the highest peaks on the seven continents, in a quest inspired by questions about their vegan lifestyle, according to the Monash Business School’s website.
‘He’s probably the person who can give us the most answers in terms of what really happened because he was there’.
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Mr Ang Tshering Sherpa, Nepal Mountain-eering Association chief whose organisation helps the government in managing expeditions, said that there was no chance of any climber going missing while scaling the Everest.
