Climber from Russia dies while climbing Everest – Society – Saint-Petersburg News
A climber from Russia died while climbing Mount Everest (Chomolungma), 8,848 meters high. This was reported by the Department of Tourism of Nepal on Sunday, May 8, informs TASS.
It is specified that the death of 55-year-old Russian Pavel Kostrikin occurred in a camp at an altitude of 5,360 m on Saturday. “The Russian climbing beauty is not doing well and died when he was taken to the camp,” the news agency quoted the official representative of the department as saying.
Since the beginning of the year, in addition to the Russian, conquering the peaks of the Himalayas, the tragedy has already been three climbers. Last Friday it became known about the appearance of an Indian who died while climbing the Kanchenjunga peak (8586 m). At the beginning, an athlete from Greece fell off the mountain and crashed. 38-year-old Nepalese Sherpa Ngimi Tenji.
By data Vesri.ru, for Kostrikin – a member of the team of the Russian club Seven Summits – this was the third attempt to conquer Chomolungma. The first time he got on her assault in 2013, but to no avail. After three years, he again found happiness, but because of what he found, the person was interested in this idea.
Fontanka wrote that in December 2020, representatives of China and Nepal at a joint ceremony announced new results for measuring the highest peaks on Earth – Everest. According to them, the mountain has grown by 86 places.