'Save me' last words of Mount Everest climber: Shriya Shah Klorfine.
'Save me' last words of Mount Everest climber: Shriya Shah Klorfine.
Shriya reached the summit in 2012, but died of exhaustion on the descent. Her bodies lies 1000 feet from the summit, draped in a Canadian flag.
The last words of a Toronto woman who died after reaching the summit of Mount Everest were "save me," says a close friend.
Shriya Shah-Klorfine of Toronto was one of four people who died while descending from the summit Saturday in what are being described as overcrowded conditions.
One of her best friends, Shellyann Siddoo, says her family is now trying to find a way to bring her body back to Canada. Shah-Klorfine's body is still on Everest above the highest camp, known as South Col.
A Nepal tourism ministry official said Shah-Klorfine, 33, and a Chinese climber, Wang-yi Fa, 55, were killed
Saturday when the mountainside was hit by strong winds. Fa's Nepalese Sherpa guide is still missing.
Shah-Klorfine and Fa were believed to have suffered exhaustion and altitude sickness, said Nepali mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha.
The two others who died were Eberhard Schaaf, a 61-year-old German doctor, and Song Won-bin, a mountaineer from South Korea.
An estimated 150 climbers tried to reach the top Friday and Saturday as they rushed to use a brief window of good weather in an otherwise troubled climbing season. Many had been waiting at a staging camp for several days for their chance to head to the summit.
"There was a traffic jam on the mountain on Saturday. Climbers were still heading to the summit as late as 2:30 p.m., which is quite dangerous," Shrestha said.
Climbers normally are advised not to try for the summit after 11 a.m. The area above the last camp at the South Col is nicknamed the "death zone" because of the steep icy slope, treacherous conditions and low oxygen level.
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