The deaths of an Irish and a British climber on Mount Everest took the toll from a deadly week on the world’s highest peak to 10, expedition organisers said Saturday. “Our guides tried to help but he died soon after,” Murari Sharma of Everest Parivar Expedition told AFP. Four climbers from India and one each from the United States, Austria and Nepal have already died on Everest in the past week. At least 140 others have been granted permits to scale Everest from the northern flank in Tibet, according to operators. Eight other climbers have died on other 8,000-metre-plus Himalayan peaks this season, while two are missing.

Source: Punch May 25, 2019 09:11 UTC