Manaslu, Makalu news
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One German mountaineer dead, another missing in Manaslu
Reuters report
A German mountaineer is missing and another was killed in separate
climbing accidents on Mount Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest peak,
Nepal's tourism ministry said on Friday.
It said Michael Zunk, 35, lost his footing at around 7,700 metres
(25,250 feet) and disappeared on Sunday evening, three hours after
reaching the summit.
Zunk was part of a three-member German team that scaled Manaslu's
8,163-metre (26,781-foot) summit without using bottled oxygen, the
ministry said.
It said Zunk's fellow climber, Joerg Starke, 31, plunged to his
death from an altitude of 7,300 metres (23,950 feet) on Saturday while
climbing the mountain. His body was recovered.
Starke's death was the 44th climbing death on the mountain.
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Australian Climber falls to death in Makalu
Excerpts from Reuters report
The leader of a seven-member Australian expedition to Mount Makalu,
the world's fifth highest peak, fell to his death while descending,
eyewitnesses said on Saturday.
They said David Hume, 31, a systems analyst from Sydney, plunged to
his death from a height of 300 metres (985 feet) on May 8, hours after
he scaled the 8,463-metre (27,765-foot) summit via the standard
northwest route.
Deepak Shreshtha, a photo-journalist, who visited the expedition
team's base camp, told Reuters that a sherpa accompanying the team
said Hume had died after falling.
Hume was married but had no children. Last October, he reached one
of the 8,000-metre (26,250-foot) summits of the Himalayan
Mt. Shishpanga in Tibet, north of Nepal.
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