A celebrated Japanese climber who lost all but one finger to frostbite on Everest has died on his eighth attempt to reach the summit, officials said Monday. Nobukazu Kuriki had fallen ill and was descending when his team lost contact with him. The 36-year-old is the third climber
A celebrated Japanese climber who lost all but one finger to frostbite on Everest has died on his eighth attempt to reach the summit, officials said Monday.
Nobukazu Kuriki had fallen ill and was descending when his team lost contact with him. The 36-year-old is the third climber this month to perish on the world’s highest peak.
„Kuriki stopped responding to radio communication and we couldn’t see his headlamp when we looked up from the bottom in the dark,“ his team posted on Facebook. „The team near Camp 2 climbed up his route to search for him and discovered Kuriki who passed away due to low body temperature.“
Late Sunday, Kuriki had reached 7,400 meters, pushing beyond three of the four camps that mark the route to the 8,848-meter summit. „Now I feel the pain and difficulty of this mountain. I appreciate it and I am climbing,“ he wrote on Facebook.
