The tallest mountain in the world has claimed another victim. An American mountaineer has died on Everest in Nepal, the organizer of his expedition announced on Tuesday. This tragedy marks the first death of the season of a foreign climber on this mountain.
The 69-year-old mountaineer died suddenly on Monday while acclimatizing at Camp 2, about 6,400 meters above sea level. “He didn’t feel well […]. Efforts are underway to bring his body down,” Tshering Sherpa of Beyul Adventure, a local partner of US-based expedition organizer International Mountain Guides, told Pasang. Weather conditions are currently hampering the operation.
The spring season, which lasts from mid-April to the end of May, started tragically this year on Everest with the disappearance of three Nepalese climbers last month. The trio were crossing the dangerous Khumbu Icefall to deliver supplies to Camp 1, the first stop on the route to the summit of Everest, when they were hit by a mass of snow and dragged down a crevasse .