Nobukazu Kuriki, died in his 8th attempts to conquer mount Everest

News24xx.com - A Japanese mountain climber, died in his attempts to conquer the peak of Mount Everest. That was his 8th attempt to conquer the highest peak in the world.

Nobukazu Kuriki, 36 year-old was found dead while sleeping in a tent at Camp 2 in the altitude of 7,400 meters. This was stated by tourism ministry official Gyanendra Shrestha from Base Camp. The height of Mount Everest reaches 8,850 meters. "Sherpas found his body in the tent" as quoted from Reuters news agency on Monday, May 21st 2018.

Sherpa is a tribe in the Himalayas. they said the details of Kuriki's death are not clear because of the poor communication with the camp on the mountain.

Before this, Kuriki had tried 7 times to reach the peak of Everest, but always failed. In 2012, the Japanese man stayed for two days in a snow pit at an altitude of 8,230 meters on Everest, with temperatures below minus 20 degrees Celsius. Due to the cold weather at that time, he had to gave up his fingers. Because his fingers should be amputated

Earlier, Macedonian climber, Gjeorgi Petkov died on the weekend while climbing mount Everest. Not mentioned the cause of the death of the 63-year-old man.

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