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Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through the window of an aircraft during a flight to the mountain from Kathmandu, Nepal, January 15, 2020. (Image: Reuters file)
Garrett Madison, 44, climbed Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest peak at 8,516 meters (27,939 feet), on Thursday.
A renowned American mountain guide has achieved the rare Mount Everest field “triple crown” of climbing Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse peaks, a hiking firm said Friday, as the season’s death toll on the world’s highest mountain hit 12. Has occurred.
Ishwari Poudel of the Himalayan Guides Company said 44-year-old Garrett Madison climbed Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest peak at 8,516 meters (27,939 feet), on Thursday, a day after he made his 13th ascent of Everest at 8,849 meters (29,032 feet). , who is helping Madison with logistics.
Madison, who owns the Seattle-based company Madison Mountaineering, climbed the smaller but technically difficult Naptse peak at 7,855 meters (25,770 ft) on 8 May.
Poudel said, “It is very difficult to climb all three peaks in a single season and only a few other climbers have done it.”
Separately, tourism department official Khim Lal Gautam said Canadian national Petrus Albertine Swart, 63, who had fallen ill in the “death zone” while on his way to Everest’s summit, died on Thursday, leading to weather conditions on the mountain. The total death toll rose to 12. least. Three other climbers are missing or out of touch.
Poudel, a hiking company official, said Madison was accompanied by three Sherpa climbers on all three peaks.
“We are extremely proud of the team and this tremendous accomplishment,” Madison said on its company website.
British climber Kenton Cool, who climbed the Triple Crown in 2013, said that Garrett was an “unflappable expedition leader” who quietly does his job.
“When I climbed what became known as the Triple Crown in one season I said it wouldn’t be done again for 10 years,” Cool told Reuters in a text message.
“I am happy now that after 10 years it is Garrett who has managed to achieve the same feat… Bravo!!”
Kool, 49, last week set a new record of 17 summits of Everest, the world’s highest peak, by a foreign climber.
A Nepalese, Kami Rita Sherpa, climbed Everest this week for the 28th time, the most by any climber.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – reuters,
