The body of Kenyan climber Cheruiyot Kirui, who vanished on Wednesday while on an Everest expedition, has been discovered.
Kirui’s body was discovered a few meters below the Everest summit, according to the organizers.
The Nepali mountaineering news website Everest reported on Thursday that “he was on a daring mission to reach the summit without supplementary oxygen and was accompanied by a Nepali climber Nawang Sherpa, whose fate is still unknown.”
Along with his guide Sherpa, Kirui, an employee of the Kenya Commercial Bank, vanished from sight.
At Bishop Rock, which is situated at an elevation of 8,000 meters, Kirui and his guide are said to have lost touch with representatives of Seven Summit Treks (SST), a climbing business with headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal.
The highest mountain on Earth, Everest, rises 8,848.86 meters above sea level. It’s over the border between China and Nepal.
Kirui stated last month in an interview that he did not want to climb Everest with extra oxygen since it would be very simple.
“Not requiring additional oxygen would be a challenge for me; otherwise, I wouldn’t consider myself to have accomplished much.” Kirui then remarked, “I want to see how my body can handle such high altitude. “The ‘death zone’ is reached by climbers on Mount Everest who ascend more than 8,000 meters.
Because there is so little oxygen in this area, the body’s cells begin to die and judgment is affected. There, your body is not designed to survive with that oxygen concentration—roughly one-third of what is at sea level—he continued.
The aim is to reach the peak as quickly as you can while there and then descend before your body begins to fail or shut down.” Kirui claimed to have ascended Mount Kenya, Kenya’s highest peak at 5,199 meters above sea level, more than fifteen times. “I can no longer count…
It takes me less than seven hours to climb up and down. Over time, it has gotten comparatively easier,” he stated at the time.
In addition, he has climbed Kilimanjaro, the 5,895-meter-tall highest peak in Africa. A search team was dispatched to the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) high mountain on Wednesday morning when Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui, 40, and his Nepali guide Nawang Sherpa, 44, lost communication.
The head of the tourism department’s field office at the base camp, Khim Lal Gautam, stated, “The team has found the Kenyan climber dead between the summit and the Hillary Step, but his guide is still missing.” In addition, search teams are still looking for a British climber, age 40, and a Nepali guide, age 21. They went missing on Tuesday morning after an ice fall fell during their descent from Everest’s summit.
A Romanian climber lost his life in his tent on Monday while attempting to summit Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest peak. The path taken by Everest and Lhotse remains the same until they diverge at about 7,200 meters.
Two Mongolian climbers went missing earlier this month after reaching the summit of Everest, and they were subsequently discovered dead.
Makalu, the fifth-highest peak in the world, has seen the deaths of two more climbers this season: a Frenchman and a Nepali woman.
Over 900 licenses have been issued by Nepal for its mountains this year, 419 of which are for Everest, bringing in more than US$5 million in royalties. After a rope-fixing team reached the summit of Everest last month, over 500 climbers and their guides had already made it there.
Malaysian climber saved in rare Everest “death zone” rescue by Nepali Sherpa Eight of the ten highest peaks in the world are located in Nepal, which attracts hundreds of travelers each spring when the weather is pleasant and the winds are usually quiet.
Although more than 600 climbers reached the peak of Everest last year, it was also the worst season with 18 fatalities on the mountain.
