Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui and his guide, Nawang Sherpa, went missing Wednesday.
Tents of mountaineers are pictured at Everest base camp in the Mount Everest region of Solukhumbu district on April 18, 2024.Kirui's body was found 62 feet, or about 19 meters, below Everest's peak, Nepal's Department of Tourism said.
He was accompanied by a Nepalese climber and guide, Nawang Sherpa, whose fate remains unknown. Search teams have been deployed to the mountain.Kirui wrote that he had made extensive preparations for his summit: "Nawang Sherpa will ferry an emergency bottle of oxygen to be used; if I go lights out or if I go bananas. If I'm time barred, unfavourable weather, body limit reached: when I realize I'm no superman.
Tents of mountaineers are pictured at Everest base camp in the Mount Everest region of Solukhumbu district on April 18, 2024.
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