UPDATE: Mountaineer and Everest blogger Alan聽Arnette聽聽that reports of聽Sherpas聽finding the bodies of four dead climbers in a tent at Camp IV were false.鈥淢anaging Director at Seven Summit Treks,聽Mingma聽Sherpa,聽who provided the the information to聽Himalayan Times聽reporter聽Rajan聽Pokhrel聽who wrote the story鈥 Both now say it was a mistake and were no 4 new bodies,”聽Arnette聽wrote.聽This article has since been updated to reflect that information.
Relying on the initial news reports, 国产吃瓜黑料 incorrectly stated that聽 at Camp IV on Tuesday. At the time,聽聽that 鈥渋t is most likely [the climbers] died from carbon monoxide poisoning by using their stoves in the tent without proper ventilation.鈥
Camp IV sits at 26,246 feet. where the air is too thin to support life for extended periods of time. Mountaineers .聽Due to extreme weather this season, summit windows have been narrow, and climbers making summit pushes have encountered dangerous conditions, including high winds. Alan Arnette, for instance, reported in his blog that to the summit, leaving them in tents at high elevation.
Six people have died on the mountain so far this year.
Earlier this week, a team of聽Sherpas聽, a Slovakian who died from altitude sickness at Camp IV on May 21. Another climber, an Alabama doctor named Roland Yearwood, was making his second attempt at Everest when he died near the summit, also on May 21. Officials are . Two other climbers, Ravi Kumar of India and Francesco Marchetti of Australia, died on Everest over the weekend, . Kumar reportedly fell聽during his descent, and Marchetti鈥檚 , though the Himalayan Times suspects altitude sickness.聽
On May 6, 85-year-old Nepalese mountaineer Min聽Bahadur聽Sherchan聽. A week earlier, on April 30, in a shock to the mountaineering community,聽famed Swiss climber聽Ueli聽Steck聽died in a fall聽while acclimatizing near Everest.聽
The year鈥檚 deaths follow close on the heels of the two deadliest seasons on Everest. The 2014 earthquake killed 16 people on the mountain, and in 2015 a total of 24 people died, 18 of them in an avalanche that swept through Base Camp.