More than 150 scale Mount Everest after weather improves

Japanese comedian Tomoaki Hamatsu, known by the stage name Nasubi, scaled Mount Everest on Thursday, according to an official of Nepal’s Tourism Ministry. He describes it as his “greatest opportunity”.

Hamatsu, who hails from Fukushima Prefecture, has said he wanted to climb Mount Everest as part of efforts to help his hometown recover from the March 2011 nuclear disaster. A year before, 16 sherpa guides were killed by an avalanche above the base camp.

Glasbrenner is an author and motivational speaker. “It seems that more climbers will scale the Mount Everest in the next two days”, he said.

Twenty-two global climbers and local sherpas, who got struck at the Everest base camp by an avalanche previous year, were killed.

A Nepalese sherpa guide, accompanying Indian soldiers in their attempt to summit the world’s fourth-highest peak Lhotse Face, died today after he slipped and fell 2,000 metres while fixing ropes during the expedition.

China’s Wang Jing reached the top after using a helicopter to transport tent equipment to higher camps following the cancellation of that year’s mountaineering season.

“He has the record of having led 17 people, including the six today, to the summit”, Goswami said.

Since the first summit of Everest in 1953, more than 300 people, a lot of them locals, have died while attempting to scale Everest and Lhotse, which share the same route until Camp 3 at 23,000-feet.

Mountaineering is a major revenue-earner for the impoverished Himalayan nation but last year’s quake, which killed nearly 9,000 people, threatened the future of the country’s climbing and trekking industry.

After two disastrous years during which no climber reached the top following 31 deaths in 2014 and 2015, a total of 289 climbers and more than 300 guides are going for the peak this season.