even people died while climbing Mount Everest this week.
On Thursday, Indians Kalpana Das, 52, and Nihal Bagwan, 27, died while descending from the peak, and an Austrian climber died on the North side of the mountain, the BBC reported.
Bagwan’s tour guide told AFB he had been “stuck in the traffic for more than 12 hours and was exhausted.”
The two who died on Wednesday were identified as Indian Anjali Kulkarni and American Donald Lynn Cash.
Kulkarni’s son told CNN she died on her way back from the summit of the mountain to the camp, during a traffic jam.
“Due to the huge traffic [Wednesday] and the delay in being able to return back, she couldn’t maintain her energy,” Phupden Sherpa, Kulkarni’s tour guide from Pioneer Adventures, told the New York Times.
Cash reportedly fainted from altitude sickness. His daughter told NBC’s Today Show that a cause of death has not been officially determined, but that family members believe he suffered a heart attack.
Another climber, Irishman Seamus Lawless, went missing on May 16 and is presumed dead.
On Wednesday a picture posted by climber Nirmal Purja shows hundreds of people in a winding line up to the top of the mountain.
