Kathmandu: Two climbers of Romania and India died on the Mount Lhotse in Nepal, the fourth higher world summit, officials announced on Monday, taking the number of deaths this season at least nine.
Romania Barna Zsolt Vago, 48, died on Sunday while riding the mountain of 8,516 meters (27,940 feet), Liladhar Awasthi for the Nepal Tourism Department told AFP.
It did not use additional oxygen.
On the same day, an Indian climber, Rakesh Kumar, 39, died between camp 3 and camp 4 while he was going down after a successful summit.
“Our guides are trying to bring back his body,” said Prakash Acchara of Makalu, his shipping organizer, said AFP.
Nepal has delivered more than 1,100 Mountaineers permit this season, including 107 for the Hotse.
The climbers who try lhotse use the same base camp as those aimed at the top of Everest.
They follow the same road on the mountain, on the scale of the Lhotse face – a wall of ice of 1,125 meters – before the path to the neighboring summits divided.
The incident comes after two people – a Philippin and an Indian climber – died on the neighboring Everest last week.
At least five others, including one French, an American, an Austrian and two Nepalese climbers, have died in Himalayan mountains since the start of the spring climbing season.
Nepal houses eight of the 10 highest peaks in the world and hosts hundreds of climbers per spring, when the temperatures are warmer and the winds are generally quieter.
