KATHMANDU: Two more climbers have died on Everest, expedition organisers said on Thursday (May 18), bringing the number of deaths on the world's highest peak this spring climbing season to seven. The latest fatalities were a 58-year-old Indian woman who said before her expedition that she had a pacemaker,
KATHMANDU: Two more climbers have died on Everest, expedition organisers said on Thursday , bringing the number of deaths on the world's highest peak this spring climbing season to seven.
Suzanne Leopoldina Jesus died at a hospital in the Nepal town of Lukla after the Indian mountaineer was airlifted from base camp due to illness. Jesus had raised funds for her climb with the slogan,"Everest expedition and back on a pacemaker, at the age of 58".The primary school teacher aimed to be Asia's first person on a pacemaker and the oldest Indian to climb Everest, the Himalayan Times reported.
In the other death, a Nepali trash collector died on Tuesday while descending. He was part of an annual mountain clean-up campaign by Nepal's army.
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