Three more climbers die on crowded slopes of Everest
Three Indian climbers, two women among them, died of exhaustion while descending the slopes of Mount Everest, Nepali officials said yesterday, taking to 15 the total of mountaineers killed or missing in this year’s climbing season. More than 120 climbers scaled the world’s highest mountain on Thursday, but some of them were caught in the crowd of people on the slopes, leading to exhaustion, dehydration and death, they said. Nihal Ashpak Bagwan, 27, from India’s western city of Pune and Anjali Sharad Kulkarni, 54, from the commercial capital of Mumbai, died on the way down from the summit, 8,850 metres (29,035 feet) high. Lhakpa Sherpa of another agency said his client, Kulkarni, died of weakness while coming down to Camp IV on the South Col of Everest.
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