Three Climbers Die on Mt Everest

Mt. Everest, 8,848 meter high, seen from Syangboche, 3,800 meter high a day before a Cabinet meeting on Kalapathar, Solukhumbu district of Nepal, 03 December 2009. Photo by BGNES

At least three climbers – a South Korean, a German and a Nepali-born Canadian woman - have died while returning from the summit of Mt Everest, Nepali officials say. Two more are missing.

Conditions were favourable on Friday and Saturday morning but a wind storm swept the mountain later on Saturday, Mountaineering Department official Gyanendra Shresth told AP.

Officials named the Canadian woman as Shriya Shah, and the German as Eberhard Schaaf.

The two currently missing on the mountain are believed to be a Chinese national and his Nepali guide.

A study published in the British Medical Journal in 2006 stated that, on average, there had been one death for every 10 successful attempts to scale Mt Everest.

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