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Dutch Climber Dies On Way Back From Mount Everest Summit
Posted On May 21 2016
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The mountaineer, who has yet to be identified, died at Camp 4 after falling ill with altitude sickness late Friday as he descended the world’s highest mountain.
An Australian and a Dutch climber have died of altitude sickness on Mount Everest.
Lhakpa Sherpa reached the 29,035-foot peak from the Tibetan side, said Rajiv Shrestha of the 7 Summits Adventure company, which organized her expedition.
“She was in her mid-thirties”.
An expedition organizer says a 35-year-old Dutch man suffering from high-altitude sickness died on his way back from Mount Everest’s summit.
He said more details were not available because of poor communications with the crew on the 8,850-metre mountain, and that it would take days and several people to bring Arnold’s body down the slopes.
Mr Arnold was from the Dutch city of Rotterdam, according to his Twitter account. It is said that Eric Arnold was a survivor of the last year’s deadly avalanche on the Mt Everest, and fourth times climber of the Mount Everest.
Only one climber summited the peak in 2014, using a helicopter to transport tent equipment to higher camps after an avalanche killed 16 Nepali guides and prompted the cancellation of that year’s mountaineering season. Last year, he was among the climbers caught in a deadly avalanche on Everest base camp following a massive natural disaster.
The tragedies come as Queensland teen Alyssa Azar has succeeded in her bid to become the youngest Australian in history to scale Mount Everest.
They are the first fatalities on the world’s highest peak since expeditions resumed this year.
Hundreds of climbers fled Everest a year ago after an earthquake-triggered avalanche at base camp killed 18 people. More than 330 climbers have reached the top of Everest this month.
Nepal issued 289 permits to foreign mountaineers for this year’s brief spring climbing season, which runs from mid-April to the end of May, after two consecutive failed seasons. After it ends, harsh weather conditions make it especially hard to climb.
