Before dying on descent, climber wrote that he feared Everest overcrowding could prove deadly.
"He was 150 metres below the summit when he suddenly fell down," said Murari Sharma of Fisher's expedition company."Our sherpa Jangbu tried to wake him up him and change his oxygen bottle and tried to give him some water but there was no response."last week, Fisher shared his condolences for two climbers who died in the"death zone" above the 8,000-meter mark in the days leading up to his expedition.
Three Indian nationals died Thursday while trying to climb Everest, which sits on the border of Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of southwest China, officials and mountaineering agencies confirmed to NBC News on Friday. An American man from Utah died earlier in the week after having reached the summit and fulfilling his life’s dream, his children told
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