Indian climber dies while descending from Mount Lhotse summit point

“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.”

Bishnoi breathed his last at Yellow Band near Camp IV while descending the world’s fourth-highest mountain in the Himalayas.

He climbed Mt Lhotse on Sunday after abandoning his Mt Everest bid.

The efforts were reportedly underway to recover his body, said PTI, citing The Himalayan Times newspaper.

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Barna Zsolt Vago, one of Romanian national TV’s most experienced videographers, also died on the same day as he was attempting to scale the Lhotse peak, said Rajan Bhattarai of his Himalayan Guides company.

Lhotse, at 8,516 metres above sea level, is the world’s fourth-tallest peak after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga.

Indian climber dies while descending from Mt Everest

This comes after a 45-year-old Indian climber breathed his last while descending from the summit point of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest.

The deceased climber was identified as Subrata Ghosh from West Bengal.

Ghosh died on Saturday (May 17), just below the Hillary Step, according to The Himalayan Times newspaper.

The 45-year-old showed signs of altitude sickness during his descent and refused to continue, said Bodhraj Bhandari, Managing Director at Snowy Horizon Treks.

“Ghosh refused to move while descending from the summit,” Bhandari quoted Ghosh’s guide as saying.