{"id":479856,"date":"2025-05-21T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=479856"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T03:17:03","slug":"indian-romanian-climbers-die-on-nepals-lhotse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/indian-romanian-climbers-die-on-nepals-lhotse\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian, Romanian climbers die on Nepal\u2019s Lhotse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU<br \/>\nTwo climbers from Romania and India have died on Nepal\u2019s Mount Lhotse, the world\u2019s fourth highest peak, officials said Monday, taking the number of fatalities this season to at least nine. Romania\u2019s Barna Zsolt Vago, 48, died on Sunday as he was ascending the 8,516-metre (27,940-foot) mountain, Liladhar Awasthi of Nepal\u2019s tourism department told media.<br \/>\nHe was not using supplemental oxygen.On the same day an Indian climber, Rakesh Kumar, 39, died between Camp 3 and Camp 4 as he was descending after a successful summit. \u201cOur guides are trying to bring his body back,\u201d Prakash Acharya of Makalu Adventure, his expedition organiser,.<br \/>\nNepal has issued over 1,100 permits to mountaineers this season, including 107 for Lhotse.Climbers attempting Lhotse use the same base camp as those aiming for Everest\u2019s summit.<br \/>\nThey follow the same route up the mountain, scaling the sheer Lhotse Face \u2014 a 1,125-metre wall of ice \u2014 before the path to the neighbouring summits divides.<br \/>\nThe incident comes after two people \u2014 a Filipino and an Indian climber \u2014 died on neighbouring Everest last week.<br \/>\nAt least five others, including one French, one American, an Austrian and two Nepali climbers, have died on Himalayan mountains since the spring climbing season began.<br \/>\nNepal is home to eight of the world\u2019s 10 highest peaks and welcomes hundreds of climbers each spring, when temperatures are warmer and winds typically calmer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU Two climbers from Romania and India have died on Nepal\u2019s Mount Lhotse, the world\u2019s fourth highest peak, officials said Monday, taking the number of fatalities this season to at least nine. Romania\u2019s Barna Zsolt Vago, 48, died on Sunday as he was ascending the 8,516-metre (27,940-foot) mountain, Liladhar Awasthi of Nepal\u2019s tourism department told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-479856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Indian, Romanian climbers die on Nepal\u2019s Lhotse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/indian-romanian-climbers-die-on-nepals-lhotse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Indian, Romanian climbers die on Nepal\u2019s Lhotse\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KATHMANDU Two climbers from Romania and India have died on Nepal\u2019s Mount Lhotse, the world\u2019s fourth highest peak, officials said Monday, taking the number of fatalities this season to at least nine. 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