An Indian climber has died on Mount Everest and two others have gone missing, expedition organisers said on Monday, taking the death toll from the ongoing Himalayan climbing season to the world’s highest peak to five.
Subash Paul, who had fallen sick and was being taken down to safety, lost his life last night while being rescued to lower camps from near the summit point, Gyanendra Shrestha, an official at Nepal’s Tourism Ministry said.
He had reached the 8,849-metre summit on Saturday but collapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice wall. He passed away in the region between Camp IV and Camp III.
Paul is the fifth climber to have died while attempting to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,850-metre, Shrestha said, adding
that he was among four
Indians who had gone missing on Saturday.
Expedition officials managed to locate Sunita Hazra yesterday but two other Indian climbers remained missing. Sunita was airlifted to safety. Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh, who were in the team of Paul, are untraceable since Saturday.