Australian climber dies while descending Everest summit
 

KATHMANDU/MELBOURNE: A 34-year-old Australian woman has died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest, local officials in Kathmandu said on Sunday, the second death on the world’s highest mountain in as many days.

The death of Maria Strydom on Saturday was also confirmed by Monash University in Melbourne, where she worked as a lecturer.

Officials in Nepal said efforts were being made to take her body down from the mountain. Two Indian climbers went missing on the mountain on Saturday in the high slopes k**wn as "death zone", said Wangchu Sherpa of the Trekking Camp Nepal company.

"They are out of contact for more than 30 hours **w and it is **t clear if they had climbed the peak," Sherpa said, adding that two other Indians were being escorted by sherpa guides to lower camps with injuries and frost bite.

More details were **t available because of poor communication with the team, he said. The death of the Australian woman was the second on Everest this year and could hit mountaineering in Nepal, where a massive earthquake last year killed at least 18 people at Everest Base Camp.

On Friday, Dutch climber Eric Ary Ar**ld died after reaching the summit of 8,850-metre Everest. Strydom, part of the same group as Ar**ld, developed altitude sickness while descending from Camp Four, located at about 8,000 metres, the Kathmandu-based company that organised her expedition said.



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