The 2024 season is ending, with the death toll relatively low compared with other years.
KATHMANDU – An Indian climber rescued from Mount Everest has died in hospital, a Nepali tourism official said on May 28, taking the number of fatalities this season on the world’s highest mountain to eight.
The latest fatality comes as the Everest mountaineering season nears its end, with the death toll relatively low compared with other years.Three more died climbing other Nepali peaks, including a Romanian aiming for Lhotse, which neighbours Everest, while a French and a Nepali climber died on Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest mountain.
Multiple records have also been broken in 2024, including by Nepali climber Phunjo Lamam, who reached Everest’s summit in 14 hours and 31 minutes, the world’s fastest ascent of the mountain by a woman.
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