Hundreds of climbers are currently at various camps on Mount Everest. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, died at the second camp.
A US climber has died while climbing the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. Jonathan Sugarman, 69, died at the second camp, a spokesman for Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism in the capital Kathmandu said on Tuesday. Sugarman was one of hundreds of climbers currently preparing to attempt the summit at the various high-altitude camps on Mount Everest.
Permission to climb Everest costs 10,000 euros
He is the fourth death on Everest in the current spring season. The spring season starts in April and ends in June, when there is the best chance of good “windows of time” for climbing annually. Earlier this season, three Sherpas died on Everest. A total of 466 mountaineers have received an allowance of US$11,000 (€10,000) to climb Everest, the Ministry of Tourism said. That’s the most permits ever issued in one season for the 8,848-meter-high mountain.
In 2019, when traffic jams in the so-called Mount Everest death zone made headlines, the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism issued 381 permits. In the death zone at more than 8,000 meters, the human body decomposes and cannot recover.
(APA)