Popular mountaineer from the United States has perished on Everest, becoming the fourth fatality on the world’s highest peak this climbing season, glamsquad reports
Jonathan Sugarman, 69, died on Monday while on an acclimatization rotation at roughly 6,400 meters (21,000 feet), according to his excursion organizer.
“He was feeling ill and died at Camp 2.” “Efforts are being made to bring (back) his body,” Beyul Adventure’s Pasang Tshering Sherpa told AFP.
“We’re attempting to send a helicopter, but it’s snowing and the weather isn’t cooperating,” he explained.
Sugarman’s death was verified “with deep sorrow” by Beyul Adventure, a local partner of International Mountain Guides, a US-based adventure organiser.
“We can confirm that this event was not the result of a climbing accident or route condition that would be of potential impact or safety concern to any other teams on the mountain,” IMG CEO Eric Simonson stated on the company’s website.
Sugarman reached Camp 3 on Everest last year before calling it quits.
The death of three Nepali climbers last month marked the start of this year’s spring climbing season on Everest.
As part of a supply trip, the group was traversing the perilous Khumbu icefall when a block of glacier ice fell and washed them into a deep chasm.
Nepali guides — mostly ethnic Sherpas from adjacent valleys — are critical to the multimillion-dollar sector, taking enormous risks to prepare climbing routes and transport food and equipment.