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The body of a Canadian woman who died near the peak of Mount Everest last week has be discovered by the Sherpas. The climber, Shriya Shah-Klorfine, belonged to the city of Toronto.
“Tomorrow we will get the body and bring to Kathmandu,” expedition manager Ganesh Thakuri, who has been spearheading the recovery, said from Nepal.
Reportedly, the body of Shah-Klorfine has been brought to Camp II which is 6,400 metres above sea level. It took about six sherpas to bring the body down the mountain. Earlier on Saturday, sherpas had to quit the efforts of retrieving her body after carrying it almost half a kilometre closer to Camp IV, which is at 8,000 metres height.
Shah-Klorfine’s husband said: “Other bodies have been recovered this year. It’s my understanding that when there is a body in a recoverable area, there is some obligation on the sherpas who brought the climber there to bring him down.”
Shah-Klorfine was reported dead on May 19. The apparent cause of death is exhaustion and loss of oxygen. Three other climbers also died the same day. The memorial of Shah-Klorfine would be arranged in Nepal.
Sherpas faced a lot of problems while bringing back the body. The mountain officially closes to climbing activity on Thursday. Very few climbers make it to the Mount Everest; Shah-Klorfine was one of them. Unfortunately, she lost the battle while climbing down.
“Everest is a mountain that people die on,” Vancouver entrepreneur Steve Curtis, who reached the summit earlier this month, said Sunday. “People should know that and expect it. I do think that as a last place of rest, I wouldn’t mind my body being there.”
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