Noel Hanna was considered an expert mountaineer. Now, the 56-year-old Irishman has died after climbing the world’s 10th highest peak, Annapurna, in Nepal.
Northern Irish climber Noel Hanna has died aged 56 in his tent after climbing the 8,000-metre Annapurna Himalayas, a spokesman for the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism said on Tuesday. Initially, there was no further information about the cause of death or the circumstances.
Search teams rescue Indian climbers
Hanna climbed the tenth highest mountain in the world without artificial oxygen, and also climbed the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, ten times in the past, wrote the local online portal “Everest Chronicle”. His body was taken to the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. At the same time, search teams managed to rescue two climbers from India who had been missing from the same Himalayan mountain since Monday, he said.
Currently, the spring season is in the Himalayas: it starts in April and ends in June, when there is the best “window of time” to climb Mount Everest, for example. Three Sherpas have already died this season.
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For this year’s window, around 700 climbers have received permits from Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism, which are required to climb the Himalayan Mountains from the country. 319 of them received the Mount Everest climbing permit, which costs 11,000 dollars (about 10,000 euros).