Indian climber Subhash Paul died Sunday while being helped down the mountain by Sherpa guides one day after reaching the summit.
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Of the 7,001 Everest summits going into this season, according to the Himalayan Database, only 193-or 2.7 percent-did not involve supplemental oxygen.
Nath and Ghosh were near the summit of the 8,848-metre peak on Saturday when they lost contact with the rest of the four-member team, all of whom were Indians.
Last year, a devastating natural disaster unleashed an avalanche that killed 19 people at Base Camp, effectively ending all attempts at the peak for 2015.
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. The climbers are accompanied on the mountain by around 400 local Nepalese Sherpa guides.
Yet, some criticize expedition companies for taking novice climbers without any mountaineering experience. Whether this was brought on by the cold, her diet, a combination of both or an entirely different reason is still unknown. ABC News also reported that her husband, Rob Gropel, was with her when she died.
Hopes of finding the two Indian climbers missing on Mount Everest alive dimmed further on Tuesday, with a rescue mission to locate them on the world’s highest mountain to be initiated on Wednesday.
Retrieving his wife’s body “was not possible”, the guides said.
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Two Sherpa men have scaled Everest 21 times to hold the record for most climbs of Everest.
So, climbing Mount Everest and coming back down with all your limbs intact is a huge accomplishment, right? Just this past week, four people died trying to summit the colossal peak. CNN is reporting that on Thursday, a 25-year-old Sherpa guide named Phurba Sherpa fell to his death near Everest’s summit.
“This was a man-made disaster that may have been minimized with better management of the teams”, he said.
Dozens of other climbers have developed frostbite or become sick near the summit in recent days, including the Australian woman’s husband, Robert Gropal, who was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Kathmandu on Monday for treatment.
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Everest struck again on Sunday, as abrupt changes in weather conditions made the climb even more arduous that usual.
