According to climbing officials, a mountaineer from Northern Ireland died while coming down from the top of the world’s tenth-highest peak.
Noel Hanna, a ten-time Everest climber, reached the 8,091-meter (26,545-foot) Annapurna peak in west Nepal on Monday. He passed away the next day at Camp IV after descending from the mountain.
According to Yubaraj Khatiwada, a representative of the Department of Tourism, Hanna’s death’s circumstances are unknown.
He claimed that since Monday, a climber from India has been missing after falling into a crevasse on the lower parts of Annapurna.
Two other Indian mountaineers, who were caught up in bad weather while climbing Annapurna, were being rescued, hiking company officials said.
Annapurna peak in west Nepal, first climbed by Maurice Herzog of France in the early 1950s, is considered dangerous because of the risk of frequent avalanches.
At least 365 people have climbed Annapurna and more than 72 have died on the mountain, according to hiking officials.
Last week, three Nepali sherpa climbers died after being hit by an ice serac on the lower parts of Mount Everest.
Nepal has eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains. Climbing Himalayan peaks and hiking on their foot hills are popular adventure sports as well as a source of employment and income for the country which is tucked between China and India.