ress. He reportedly fell 3,280 feet down the mountain, which he had climbed toacclimate to the altitude before tackling Everest and Lhotse in May. Steck was alone because his trekking partner, Tenji Sherpa, had stayed behind at Everest Base Camp with a frostbitten hand, reported the New York Times.
Date: May 01, 2017
Category: Sports
Source: Google
Search resumes after Everest's worst climbing tragedy
He was the only breadwinner in the family, said 17-year-old Phinjum Sherpa, as she waited for the body of her uncle, Tenji Sherpa, at a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu. We have no one to take care of us.