Three die due to overcrowding on Everest with one man collapsing of exhaustion after being made to wait 12 hours to reach peak
The dead are two Indians and an Austrian and it comes amid traffic jams near the summit
THREE climbers have died on Mount Everest after waiting 12 hours to reach the summit amid overcrowding on the world’s highest mountain.
The climbers all died of exhaustion on their way down, bringing the death toll to seven this past week as astonishing pictures showed a line of climbers queuing to reach the top.
Local tour organiser Keshav Paudel said Bagwan had been "stuck in the traffic for more than 12 hours and was exhausted";.
Another Indian Anjali Sharad Kulkarni, 54, from Mumbai, and American Donald Lynn Cash, 55, from Utah, US, who died from altitude sickness, lost their lives on Wednesday.
Brit Harry Taylor, who was the first person to scale Everest’s northeast ridge in 1988, told that amateur climbers are risking their lives paying ill-equipped expedition operators and corrupt local officials
Seamus, from Bray, Co Wicklow, was descending from the summit when he fell from an altitude of 27,200 ft while in the balcony area near the mountain's summit last Thursday.
The Himalayan Times has reported that a team of nine, led by Irish mountaineer Noel Hanna who was part of Lawless' original expedition, launched a search operation today.
The rising numbers of people climbing - and dying - on Everest has led for calls for permits to be limited.
Ben Fogle, the adventurer and television presenter who climbed the mountain last year, called for "London Marathon style lottery for climbing permits" in a Twitter post.
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