2023-05-02 10:56:27
Tragedy on top of the world. An American mountaineer has died in Nepal on Everest, the organizer of his expedition announced on Tuesday. This is the first death of a season for a foreign climber on the highest mountain in the world.
The 69-year-old mountaineer died suddenly on Monday while acclimatizing at around 6,400m above sea level. “He did not feel well and died in Camp 2. Efforts are underway to bring his body back down,” Pasang Tshering Sherpa, from the Beyul Adventure organization, told AFP. The latter added that the weather conditions hampered the operation.
“We are able to confirm that this event is not the result of a climbing accident or a routing issue that could impact other teams on the mountain or pose a problem for them. safety,” Eric Simonson, head of IMG (International Mountain Guides), American partner of Beyul Adventure, told AFP.
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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 .
Every year, an average of about five mountaineers die trying to climb the highest peak in the world, which rises to 8,849 m above sea level. In 2019, 11 people died, four of them due to excessive use of the mountain. Nearly 1,000 people will attempt to reach the summit during this season, which ends in early June, which could again lead to heavy traffic and bottlenecks on the way to the summit, especially if the window suitable for climbing is shortened by bad weather conditions.
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