A Japanese climber died on Monday during an attempt to climb Mount Everest, an official said, the second person to die on the world’s highest mountain during the current climbing season.
Nobukazu Kuriki, 36, was found dead near camp 2 at about 6,400 meters (20,997 feet) on the 8,850-metre (29,035-feet) mountain, tourism department official Gyanendra Shrestha said from base camp.
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“Sherpas found his body inside the tent,” Shrestha told Reuters. Details of the incident are not immediately available due to poor communication with the higher camp, he said.
Kuriki had made seven unsuccessful attempts to scale Everest.
In 2012, Kuriki spent two days in a snow hole at 27,000 feet (8,230 meters) on Everest in temperatures below minus 20 Celsius. That was when he had to have his fingertips amputated.
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