KATHMANDU: A Kenyan man has died near to Everest‘s mountain and his Nepali link is missing, a hospitality national said Thursday, taking this month’s burden on the nation’s highest mountain to at least three.
Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui, 40, and his Nepali link Nawang Sherpa, 44, went out of touch Wednesday night, and a research team was deployed on the 8, 849- metre ( 29, 032- foot ) great mountain.
” The group has found the Kenyan man dying between the mountain and the Hillary Step, but his manual is also missing”, Khim Lal Gautam, commander of the tourism’s section field office at the base camp, told AFP.
Search parties are also looking for a 40-year-old British climber and a 21-year-old Nepali guide who have been missing since Tuesday morning when an ice fall fell as they were ascending Everest’s peak.
On Monday, a Romanian climber died in his tent during a bid to scale Lhotse, the fourth- highest mountain in the world.
Lhotse and Everest follow the same route until they diverge at around 7 200 meters.
Two Mongolian climbers went missing earlier this month after climbing to Everest’s summit, and were later discovered dead.
Two more climbers, one French, and one Nepali, have died this season on Makalu, the world’s fifth- highest peak.
Nepal has issued up to 900 permits for its mountains this year, including 419 for Everest, earning more than$ 5 million in royalties.
After a rope-fixing team reached the top last month, more than 500 climbers and their guides have already reached the top of Everest.
China reopened the Tibetan route to foreigners for the first time since the pandemic shut it down in 2020.
Nepal is home to eight of the top ten mountain ranges in the world, and it welcomes hundreds of adventurers there each spring when the weather is typically calm and the temperatures are warm.
Last year, more than 600 climbers made it to the summit of Everest, but it was also the deadliest season on the mountain, with 18 fatalities.
