He died last Friday near South Col after showing signs of altitude sickness.
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Mere hours after Arnold passed, Australian climber Maria Strydom also showed signs of altitude sickness before dying Saturday afternoon, Seven Summit Treks agency spokesman Pasang Phurba told AP.
Meanwhile, another team of Sherpa guides were heading to a spot called the Triangular Face, the final push toward the peak, to search for two other Indian climbers who went missing last weekend.
Climbing of Everest resumed this year after two years off because of a major quake in 2015 and an avalanche that killed 16 sherpas in 2014.
Few climbers are left on the mountain who haven’t made their summit attempts.
As climbers ascend above 8,000 metres, they enter the “death zone” – notorious for its hard terrain and thin air – where oxygen supplies fall to dangerously low levels and make mountaineers susceptible to altitude sickness.
Marisa Strydom’s family were hoping a recovery team could get her body to camp 2 on Wednesday.
Dr Maria Strydom fell ill from altitude sickness while descending from the summit at Mt Everest, and died.
Climbing Mount Everest has become increasingly unsafe in recent years.
The lecturer who had worked at Monash University prior to her death, is reported to have chose to turned back from her attempt to reach the summit of the mountain and had been assisted down to the South Col by her husband. But they disappeared so high on the mountain that helicopters can’t reach them.
She and Mr Arnold both died during the descent, Mr Coster said.
A Sherpa guide from the agency coordinating the expedition told The Associated Press it was unlikely Nath and Ghosh had survived conditions on top of Everest.
Among them was 19-year-old Alyssa Azar, who on Saturday became the youngest Australian to reach the summit, and Lhakpa Sherpa, who notched a new record for female climbers with her seventh ascent.
Professional climber Cory Richards documented his Everest climb last week on Snapchat, and spoke with “CBS This Morning”.
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.
In an interview earlier this year with RTV Rijnmond, Arnold noted that the risks of climbing the world’s highest peak did not end at the summit.
Five people have died so far during this Himalayan climbing season, which saw about 400 mountaineers summit the world’s highest peak, officials have said.
Dr Strydom’s family are now desperately trying to recover her body, which remains at the 8000-metre mark on Mount Everest.
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“Climbing Everest without supplemental oxygen has been a goal of mine for a long time”.
