NAIROBI, Kenya May 23 \u2013 Missing Kenyan mountaineer Cheruiyot Kirui has been found dead a few meters below Mt Everest summit.<\/p>\n
His body was discovered at a dangerous zone known as the death zone, local officials said in Nepal.<\/p>\n
The fate of Nawang Sherpa who was with Kirui when they went up the mountain without supplementary oxygen fate remains unknown.<\/p>\n
According to the Himalayan Times, Kirui went out of contact from the Bishop Rock camp late Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cNawang had last communicated with the base camp officials from Bishop Rock that Kirui refused to return and even consume bottled oxygen but showed abnormal behaviour,\u201d Himalayan Times reported.<\/p>\n
Earlier, two climbers fell near Hillary step on Mt Everest on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n
According to a source at the base camp, Daniel Paul Peterson from UK and Pas Tenji Sherpa from Makalu fell down when a section of route in the Hillary section below the summit point collapsed.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Gabriel Tabara of Romania was found dead inside his tent at Camp III on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Mongolian climbers \u2013 Usukhjargal Tsedendamba and Prevsuren Lkhagvajav \u2013 also died above 8,500m while descending from the summit point on May 13.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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