Two mountain climbers - one from India and another from Romania - died on Nepal's Mount Lhotse, hiking officials said on Monday, as per Reuters.
The 39-year-old person from India is identified as Rakesh Kumar. He died on Sunday when he was climbing down the 8,516 meters tall mountain, said Mohan Lamsal of Makalu Adventure, the Nepali company that organised his climb.
“He was coming down from the 8,000 metre (26,246 ft) high fourth camp when he suddenly collapsed,” Lamsal told Reuters. “Efforts to revive him by his Sherpa guide failed.”
The 48-yr-old Romanian citizen Barna Zsolt Vago died the same day when he was going up to the Lhotse peak, according to Rajan Bhattarai of his Himalayan Guides company.
Deaths often occur during the March-May climbing season in Nepal every year when mountaineers arrive to climb the tallest mountains on earth. The total death toll for the season now stands at eight. Two died on Mount Everest during the current climbing season that ends in May.
Mount Lhotse is the fourth-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga. Lhotse lies on the border of Nepal and Tibet, just south of Mount Everest.
