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Veteran Mountaineer Fall on Mount Everest

MONDAY, 30 APRIL 2007

Former Mount Everest summiteer died after he fell into a crevasse last Thursday. His death is the first on the mountain for the current climbing season.

High altitude guide Dawa Sherpa slipped and fell into a crevasse while he was preparing logistics. According to a mountaineering agency the accident happened between the second and the third camps on the world's tallest mountain which lie at an altitude of between 6,400 meters and 7, 500 meters.

Dawa, who had reached the summit of 8,848-metre peak three times, was part of Everest International Expedition who was permitted to climb Everest for seventy five days. His remains will be brought to the Nepalese capital for the last rites.

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