Russian mountaineer Pavel Kostrikin died at Mount Everest Camp I, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world’s highest peak during the current climbing season, which began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday.
Tourism Ministry official Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai said Kostrikin, 55, died Saturday at the camp at an altitude of about 5360 meters, during a turn on the 8,848-meter mountain.
“The Russian mountaineer fell ill at Camp II and died after being taken to Camp I,” Bhattarai told Reuters without detailing the matter.
II on the normal route to the southeast peak of Everest. The camp is located at an altitude of about 6,400 meters.
Authorities said Kostrikin’s body will be taken to Kathmandu once the current cloudy weather improves.
Mount Everest has been climbed 10,657 times, multiple times, since it was first climbed from the Nepalese and Tibetan sides of the mountain in 1953, and 311 people have died so far, according to the Himalayan Database.
Mountaineering is the main tourist activity in Nepal and is an important source of income and employment. The country has eight of the 14 highest mountains in the world.
More than 900 foreign climbers have been granted a permit to climb 26 Himalayan peaks in Nepal, including 316 Mount Everest permits, in the current season ending in May.
source: Noticias
