This representational picture reveals a mountaineer holds on to the rope throughout an mountain climbing session at Everest base camp, Nepal April 15, 2025. — Reuters
KATHMANDU: Two climbers from Romania and India have died on Nepal’s Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest peak, officers mentioned Monday, taking the variety of fatalities this season to no less than 9.
Romania’s Barna Zsolt Vago, 48, died on Sunday as he was ascending the 8,516-metre (27,940-foot) mountain, Liladhar Awasthi of Nepal’s tourism division informed AFP.
He was not utilizing supplemental oxygen.
On the identical day an Indian climber, Rakesh Kumar, 39, died between Camp 3 and Camp 4 as he was descending after a profitable summit.
“Our guides are trying to bring his body back,” Prakash Acharya of Makalu Journey, his expedition organiser, informed AFP.
Nepal has issued over 1,100 permits to mountaineers this season, together with 107 for Lhotse.
Climbers making an attempt Lhotse use the identical base camp as these aiming for Everest’s summit.
They observe the identical route up the mountain, scaling the sheer Lhotse Face — a 1,125-metre wall of ice — earlier than the trail to the neighbouring summits divides.
The incident comes after two folks — a Filipino and an Indian climber — died on neighbouring Everest final week.
Not less than 5 others, together with one French, one American, an Austrian and two Nepali climbers, have died on Himalayan mountains for the reason that spring climbing season started.
Nepal is dwelling to eight of the world’s 10 highest peaks and welcomes lots of of climbers every spring, when temperatures are hotter and winds usually calmer.
