KATHMANDU - A renowned US mountain guide has achieved the rare Mount Everest region 'triple crown' of climbing the Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks in one season, a hiking firm said on Friday (May 26), as the season's death toll on the world's highest mountain hit 12. Garrett Madison, 44, climbed Lhotse, the world’s fourth tallest peak at 8,516 metres...
Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal on Jan 15, 2020.KATHMANDU - A renowned US mountain guide has achieved the rare Mount Everest region "triple crown" of climbing the Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks in one season, a hiking firm said on Friday , as the season's death toll on the world's highest mountain hit 12.
Madison, who owns the company Madison Mountaineering based in Seattle, climbed the smaller but technically difficult Nuptse peak, at 7,855 metres , on May 8. Separately, Department of Tourism official Khim Lal Gautam said Canadian national Petrus Albertyn Swart, 63, who fell sick in the "death zone" while going to Everest summit died on Thursday, taking the season's total death toll on the mountain to 12. At least three other climbers are missing or out of contact.
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