In mid-May, a 33-year-old Canadian woman - Shriya Shah-Klorfine - died on the side of Mount Everest. She had reached the summit two days earlier, but succumbed – along with three other climbers - to ‘exhaustion and altitude sickness’ during the descent. Since the first expedition up Everest in 1922, a total of 210 people have died there. I am sure people have perished in attempts to climb other mountains as well, but thousands more reach their snowy peaks and live to tell the tale (and/or go on to scale others).
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