American Doctor, 50, Dies While Trying to Climb Mount Everest
An American physician died over the weekend while attempting to summit Earth's highest peak. Dr. Roland Yearwood was nearing the peak of Mount Everest when he died Sunday in the so-called "death zone" where air becomes perilously thin. was one of three mountaineers who died over the weekend on the mountain, which straddles Nepal's border with Tibet. "We have confirmation of his death but no other details are known," Murari Sharma of the Everest Parivas trekking company told Reuters. Yearwood was part of a 16-member team led by American ...
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