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Mountain climber Alex Pancoe dies trying to standard world's 5th-highest upland
An American climber died attempting to standard the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, successful the Himalayas, his expedition organizer said Monday. It was the 2nd decease of this climbing season.
Alexander Pancoe, 39, died astatine Camp 2 of the 27,838-foot upland Sunday evening.
"He had descended aft an acclimatization rotation to Camp Three, and was not feeling well," Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal told the AFP quality agency.
Paudel said that attempts were being made to bring his assemblage down.
Pancoe, an accomplished climber and postgraduate of Northwestern University, had survived a encephalon tumor erstwhile helium was younger, CBS Chicago reported. He had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam, a situation that involves climbing the highest highest connected each of the 7 continents and past skiing to some the North and South Pole.
Pancoe survived a near-fatal fall successful 2018, erstwhile a portion of stone broke disconnected successful his hand, and helium deed a crisp edge, CBS Chicago reported. He severely injured his limb and suffered frostbite earlier crawling to get compartment work and being airlifted to safety.
Pancoe was precocious warring chronic myeloid leukemia and was attempting to ascent Makalu to rise funds for the pediatric humor crab programme of the Lurie Children's Hospital, based successful Chicago.
In 2019, CBS Chicago reported that helium dedicated his ascent of Mount Everest to Serena Lewis, a teen with whom helium shared a peculiar enslaved — they had some survived encephalon tumors acknowledgment to doctors astatine Lurie Children's Hospital.
"It's going to beryllium a immense situation for maine — climbing astatine altitude is plentifulness hard without a chronic ailment — but I look guardant to rising to the challenge," helium said connected his website, Peaks of Mind.
Summits of Mt. Everest, Mt. Nuptse and Mt. Makalu, seen from acme of Gokyo Ri, astatine sunrise connected Sept. 20, 2019.
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An Austrian climber died portion descending Nepal's Ama Dablam aft a palmy acme past month, the archetypal decease of the acme season.
Nepal is location to 8 of the world's 10 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and welcomes climbers from astir the satellite each twelvemonth during the outpouring and autumn climbing seasons.
It has already issued astir 500 permits for its mountains this season, including 214 for Everest.
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