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Mount Everest: Body of fourth climber found near top of mountain in deadly weekend
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The body of an Indian climber has been found on Mount Everest, the fourth death during a busy and tragic weekend on the world's highest peak.
Sherpa rescuers spotted the body of Indian climber Ravi Kumar, but it was impossible to retrieve the body, said Thupden Sherpa of Arun Treks and Expedition.
It appeared that Mr Kumar had fallen around 200 meters below the route, he said.
Climbers from the United States and Slovakia also died on the mountain over the weekend.
Because of bad weather conditions, climbing to the summit had been delayed this year, leading to a rush in the last few days to get to the top.
Mr Kumar, 27, fell sick on his way down from the summit on Saturday and did not make it to the nearest camp,
though his accompanying Nepalese Sherpa guide did.
The guide was also sick but managed to drag himself to the camp at South Col, located at 8,000 metres.
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I read that the average 'kill rate' for Everest was about '1 in 10', implying that one in ten climbers die on/near the mountain.
Many/Most die on the decent.
Many of the dead are left frozen insitu on the Mountain.
... and it's damm expensive to try for that selfie on the mountain top.
Apart from the chance of dying, the permit to climb normally cost $US11,000
A typical spring season sees around six deaths on Everest, according to mountaineering officials.
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With a nod to Storekeeper
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Just how deadly is Everest?
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From the BBC
They lie frozen in time, thousands of metres above sea level. The grim death toll on Everest is becoming impossible to ignore.
No one knows exactly how many bodies remain on Mount Everest today, but there are certainly more than 200.
Climbers and Sherpas lie tucked into crevasses, buried under avalanche snow and exposed on catchment basin slopes – their limbs
sun-bleached and distorted.
Most are concealed from view, but some are familiar fixtures on the route to Everest’s summit.
Perhaps most well-known of all are the remains of Tsewang Paljor, a young Indian climber who lost his life in the infamous 1996 blizzard.
For nearly 20 years, Paljor’s body – popularly known as Green Boots, for the neon footwear he was wearing when he died – has rested
near the summit of Everest’s north side.
When snow cover is light, climbers have had to step over Paljor’s extended legs on their way to and from the peak.
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Returning a body to a family costs thousands of dollars, however, and requires the efforts of six to eight Sherpas – potentially putting
those men’s lives in danger. “Even picking up a candy wrapper high up on the mountain is a lot of effort, because it’s totally frozen
and you have to dig around it,” says Ang Tshering Sherpa, chairman and founder of Asian Trekking, a company based in Kathmandu,
and president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
“A dead body that normally weighs 80kg might weigh 150kg when frozen and dug out with the surrounding ice attached.”
Typically, though, mountaineers who die on a mountain wish to remain there, a tradition co-opted from seafarers more than a century ago.
“But when we have 500 people stepping over a body ever year, that’s no longer acceptable,” says Jenkins, who had to navigate four bodies
when he was last on Everest. “That’s disgraceful.”
It's a really good BBC Article and recommend that you read it if you have an interest in the subject.
Link is at top of page.
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World's most dangerous airport near Mount Everest
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One dead in Nepal small plane crash at 'world's most dangerous airport' near Mount Everest
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A small plane carrying only crew members and cargo has crashed near Mount Everest, killing one of the pilots, Nepalese officials say.
Two other crew members were injured.
The plane hit a mountain about 20 metres below the runway of Tenzing Hillary Airport at Lukla, the gateway to Mount Everest,
government administrator Umesh Pandey said.
A 2010 History Channel documentary rated Tenzing Hillary Airport as the world's most dangerous.
The plane was carrying two pilots and an air hostess. They were all Nepali nationals.
Mr Pandey said all three on board were taken to a local hospital.
One pilot died at the hospital while the other was in critical condition.
Poor weather conditions were preventing a helicopter from flying out of Lukla to bring them to Nepal's capital, Kathmandu.
Kathmandu Airport spokesman Prem Nath Thakur said the accident would be investigated.
An initial report said it was windy when the plane was about to touch down.
The Czech-manufactured LET-410 plane belonged to the domestic airline Goma Air.
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