Celebrated Japanese climber with one finger dies on eighth attempt to summit Everest
A Japanese climber, who lost nine fingertips to frostbite in a previous expedition, died on Monday during an attempt to climb , an official said, the second person to die on the world’s highest mountain Nobukazu Kuriki, 36, was found dead while sleeping in a camp 2 tent at 7,400 metres (24,278 feet) on the 8,850-metre (29,035-feet) mountain, tourism department official Gyanendra Shrestha said from base camp. “Sherpas found his body inside the tent,” Shrestha told Reuters. Details of the incident are not immediately available due to poor ...
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