Two Indian mountaineers who summited Mount Everest have died while descending, PTI quoted a Nepali official as saying on Friday.Arun Kumar Tiwari and Sandeep Are died of exhaustion in separate incidents while coming down the 8,848.8-metre peak, Rishi Bhandari, the secretary general of the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal told the news agency.While Are climbed Everest on Wednesday and died on Thursday, Tiwari summited the peak on Thursday. However, it was unclear when he died.The climbing Sherpa guides “worked really hard” to save Are’s life but unfortunately were not able to, Bhandari was quoted as saying.While describing Tiwari’s death, the official said: “He had two experienced climbing Sherpa guides and they were trying to descend together, but he became exhausted and extremely tired at the Hillary Step, and unfortunately our guides were not able to bring him back.”Nivesh Karki, director at Pioneer Adventures, told AFP that efforts were being made to retrieve both bodies.On Wednesday, Are was one of 274 climbers who summited the world’s tallest mountain, setting a new record for the highest number of ascents ever recorded in a day.
Two other Indians, Tulasi Reddi Palpunoori and Ajay Pal Singh Dhaliwal, also made the ascent, PTI reported.Edited by Nachiket Deuskar.Also read: Why do people risk their lives climbing the Everest? I asked some of them in the ‘death zone’
