KATHMANDU: Two European climbers have plunged to their deaths in China’s Himalayas while two Asian trekkers have died of suspected altitude sickness in Nepal’s Everest region in separate incidents, a tour operator and police said Wednesday.
The Swiss and Austrian climbers were part of a team of nine mountaineers attempting to summit China’s 8,027-metre (26,335-foot) high Shisha Pangma mountain when they fell down a crevasse on Sunday.
“The two climbers have died but the others are safe,” Subash Shrestha, manager of their Kathmandu-based operator, Active Holiday Nepal Treks, told AFP.
