Two climbers who were competing for the title of the first American woman to scale all 14 of the world’s 8,000 metre-high mountains have died on the same peak.
Anna Gutu and Gina Marie Rzucidlo were both separately climbing Mount Shishapangma in Tibet when they lost their lives.They were both on their final summit on their bids to complete the feat.They died in separate locations when avalanches hit the mountain at the weekend. Ms Gutu died alongside her guide Mingmar Sherpa.Fellow American climber Ms Rzucidlo and her guide Tenjen Sherpa, were declared missing on the same day.“We’re all devastated.
”Read more: Investigation launched into claims mountaineers climbed over dying porter as they raced up summit of K2Read more: Everest climber sparks fury after Sherpa saves him at 27,000ft but he thanks sponsors and partners instead Another mountaineer, Ute Ibrahimi, from Kosovo, turned back after a first avalanche struck because of fears for her own safety.“After some time, I saw the other avalanche, the big huge one, that came from the summit,” she wrote in a post on Facebook.
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