Nepalmountainnews Report | 24 May 2008
The rush to step atop Mt Everest continues, with 22 climbers scaling the planet's tallest peak Friday, while a Swiss mountaineer died on the way to summit.
The summiteers include 13 Nepali high altitude workers and nine foreign mountaineers, said an official at the Tourism Ministry.
The official said Uwe Gianni Goltz, 44, a veteran mountaineer from Switzerland, died while attempting to reach the summit. He is the first victim of Mt Everest this spring season. More than 200 climbers have died attempting to scale Everest since it was conquered in 1953.
According to a statement by Federation of Nepali Journalists, Mingma Dorje Sherpa, a Solukhumbu correspondent of Nepal Television was among Friday's climbers.
The latest report shows that 86 climbers reached the top of Mt Everest on Thursday, the highest number of climbers to scale the world's tallest peak on a single day from the Nepali side.
In the meantime, the weather is getting adverse on Everest, forcing many climbers to halt attempt on the summit.
"We have fresh reports, stating that many climbers have temporarily halted the attempt to reach the top of Mt Everest," said Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of Nepal Mountain-eering Association. "But, the weather is expected to improve soon."
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