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Updated 12pm
RESECUERS ON EVEREST have found the body of a missing Indian climber, taking the toll from a deadly weekend on the world’s highest peak to four.
Three other climbers died on Everest over the weekend, one of the deadliest episodes since an avalanche swept through base camp two years ago, killing 18. All the fatalities appear to be related to altitude sickness.
Indian climber Ravi Kumar, 27, reached the summit on Saturday but lost contact shortly after. His Nepali guide managed to reach Camp 4, just below 8,000 metres, but sustained severe frostbite.
“A search and rescue team have seen his body,” Thupden Sherpa of Arun Treks and Expeditions told AFP.
Sherpa said that Kumar’s body was spotted about 200 metres (650 feet) from the main route and the team was assessing the feasibility of retrieving it.
An American doctor Roland Yearwood and Slovak climber Vladimir Strba both perished yesterday above the 8,000 metre mark — an area known as the mountain’s “death zone” where the thin air heightens the risk of altitude sickness.
An Australian climber died on the Tibet side of the mountain, local media reported, quoting the Tibet Mountaineering Association.
The 54-year-old from Queensland was reportedly hit by altitude sickness after reaching 7,500 metres and died as he was trying to descend. His name has not yet been officially released.
Ongoing climbs
More than a dozen climbers have been rescued from the 8,848 metre (29,030 foot) mountain in the last three days after running into difficulties on the world’s highest peak, helicopter rescue operators told AFP.
The season has been marked by strong winds and unusually cold temperatures, the weather calmed over the weekend, opening a narrow window for climbers to make a bid for the top.
Despite the large numbers crowding towards the peak, there have been no reports of long queues.
Over a hundred climbers are expected to attempt to summit from Nepal’s south side today before the weather changes in the next few days and brings strong winds, according to forecasts.
“Today there might be as many as 150 climbers reaching the top from the Nepal side, but it isn’t a record number,” Ang Tsering Sherpa, head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, told AFP.
In 2012, 255 climbers summited from both sides of the mountain in a single day, Sherpa said.
Legendary Swiss climber Ueli Steck died in late April while on an acclimatization climb, and 85-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan perished in May while attempting to reclaim his title as the world’s oldest person to summit Everest.
More than 120 climbers have successfully summited Everest from the south side so far this season, with another 80 reaching the peak from the Tibet side.
Hundreds are still waiting to summit before the monsoon arrives in early June, marking the end of the short spring climbing season.
Last year Everest claimed the lives of five climbers, while a total of 640 people summited from both sides of the mountain.
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The world is gone mad. We are raising people to be very soft in a hard world.
@Paddy Ryan: can’t agree more. Stop rewriting history. They are of their time.
@Dave Connolly: The words ‘fat’ and ‘men” are not of their time – they’re just words. This is 1984 newspeak at its worst. Utter madness.
@Paddy Ryan: Agree, I was thinking why don’t they just sell both versions, the original with original script and the watered down version so as parents can make up their minds which version they’d prefer for their children.
@Pogíní Gréine:
They’ve gone too far now
@Sean Walsh: Sam smith wants fishermen to be referred as fisherthem I kid you not
@Paddy Ryan: The Twits will be henceforth known as the Smiths.
@Aidan Nugent: brilliant
@Aidan Nugent: the Twits are now known as “progressives”
@Aidan Nugent: you leave Morrissey and Marr out of this
@Paddy Ryan: No he doesn’t, Paddy. That was a literal joke.
@Sean Walsh: Definitely.
What next.
@Aidan Nugent: Just incase you offend anyone with a Twitter account?
So glad I have all the books still from when I was a kid. My kids will get to hear the startles as they were written not the way some them wants them to be.
@Nigel Comerford: stories even
Do they honestly think “fat” is offensive and “enormous” isn’t? Personally I’d be way less upset if some called fat vs enormous. Not sure why cloud-men had to be changed to people? Are we now not acknowledging gender unless it’s non-binary or prefixed by trans? I all for inclusion but these changes seem unnecessary or at least the “solutions” poorly considered.
@Josie Jones: totally agree with you on the enormous v fat description. You can be a little bit fat but you can’t really be , a little bit enormous. Why not say he is big boned.
@Michael Costello: then ‘big’ will be the problem. Looks like all adjectives have to go
@Josie Jones: I suppose it makes sense as if there were only “cloudmen” they’d be extinct within a generation!
Won’t be long now before we have the “Thought Police” it’s getting as bad as the “Morality Police” in Iran at this rate.
@Mick McGuinness: it’s already here. Pay attention
FFS! have people lost their minds entirely? What is achieved by mutilating an author’s work, in order to pander to a tiny minority who want to be offended by everything?
@Nick Caffrey: no harm in just trying to not offend. I am glad that references to Irish people being stereotyped as drunk, spud eating, gombeens and that paddy Irishman joke references have for the most part been removed and no longer tolerated.
@Diaspora’d: as an Irish person, I always found them funny
I always thought that enormous was how you describe an extremely fat person. Thus making it even more offensive.
@Fuji Hakayito: agreed I have no idea what the thinking was here. I would be crushed if someone called me enormous, but fat?! I don’t think I’d care as much
@Fuji Hakayito: well you always thought wrong I’m afraid. You could be a very slim dinosaur but still be enormous!
@Sean: I’m talking about an adjective to describe an extremely fat PERSON and you bring up skinny dinosaurs? You are odd!
Such sh 1 t
Fat cloud-men. There, I’ve said it
@⚡ Seánie ⚡:
This is ridiculous. What the hell is the world coming to? How are people going to get through their adult lives if they are going to spend most of it offended by language never intended or designed to offend? The worst thing is, these people are actually being accommodated.
C#@ts
I am an author myself and if someone in the future begins to change my words after I am dead, I promise that I will come back and haunt them. What is wrong with the world, soon we won’t be abke to say anything at all. We’ll have to go back to communicating in Morse code
@Helen Kiely-O’Regan: that would offend Dots n Dashes ffs lol
@Aurelio Na Fodhla: especially those dashes that identify as short lines and not dashes….
@Helen Kiely-O’Regan: — — – …. . .-. / ..-. ..- -.-. -.- . .-.
@Fuji Hakayito: *– -
@Helen Kiely-O’Regan: now there is your next book idea
If we are following this logic, then is the bible going to updated? Theres loads of extreme, sexist messaging in that…
@Neil Cash:
The books were written for kids and kids dont get offended by the contents of these books.
The only people who could possibly be offended are a bunch of gobs..ts who think they are making a real difference in the world because something has triggered their near permenant internet based faux outrage.
Do they honestly think “fat” is offensive and “enormous” isn’t? Personally I’d be way less upset if some called me fat vs enormous. Not sure why cloud-men had to be changed to Cloud-people? Are we now not acknowledging gender unless it’s non-binary or prefixed by trans? I’m all for inclusion but these changes seem unnecessary or at least the “solutions” poorly considered. Not sure why his family had to apologise for comments HE made. Feels like a box ticking excercise
This is getting uncomfortably close to book burning now.Censorship masquerading as being virtuous.Honestly this is becoming pathetic.Literally like saying let’s just deny reality and the fact that some human beings are fat.Very very slippery slope.
@Johnny King: It is the opposite to liberalism and more akin to fascist dogma. Far left has gone full circle and become far right…Completely nuts..
@UK Hurling Bloke: couldn’t agree more.
@Johnny King: yanks have been burning Dr. Seuss books for the last couple of years.
The publishing company is called Puffin. I want their name changed as it is too close to a derogatory word for gay men.
This article should never have been published. The journalist has not had access to the primary source and a story has been created on hearsay as indicated by the use of the word ‘reportedly’. Just because it comes from the Press Association doesn’t mean it has reached the basic standards required for any news piece. At least when the news broke that the Little House on the Prairie books in the US was removed from some libraries and a book award for anti-Native American content we could check the primary source. I reread them all – I had a lot of spare time during lockdown! In that case, as was not uncommon at the time, the mother, Caroline and the young Laura expressed these disappointing sentiments. What was not mentioned in the debate was the attitudes of the father Charles, who consistently, and unusually for the time, told his family the white man had stolen the Native land, that their culture should be respected and understood. The books, like Roald Dahl’s, are historical artefacts and changing their content gives a false view of how we behaved in the past no matter how hurtful it may be to our ears today. Racism and discrimination has a history, it didn’t just appear from nowhere, we need to preserve this sad history to help us understand it today.
The wokes strike again. Will this stupidity never stop? If you don’t like it, don’t read it, watch it, listen to it, but for God’s sake let the majority enjoy something.
Who is offended? The children reading them or the adults thinking they will be offended by words that have been written and read countless time over the years since published
I’d be more offended if some called me enormous rather than fat
You just can’t start changing an authors words. It’s as simple as that. They chose those words! They wanted THOSE words. The journal won’t let me use the words I want to choose to express my feelings about this.
Fuxake like
So they’re no longer Roald Dahl’s books or stories.
The man put his life on the line in the fight against totalitarian terror in WWII to have this nonsense visited on his legacy.
Rest in peace Sqd Ldr Dahl.
I’m fat I don’t want to be called enormous
O M F G…..
@Pat O’Leary: O M B F G….
@Edmund Orlando: Comment of the day!
Id say he’s delighted he’s not here to hear this s hi te!
What absolute bull-5h*t
When will enough be enough. Whatever you are just be. Everything will be offensive to someone. This s***e is helping no-one. Stop rewriting history at this rate all history books should be burned!!
Disgraceful… The world is turning into a bunch of snowflakes… If it’s offensive don’t read it… If Eminem offends you don’t listen to it but it’s literature and poetry… It should not be re written to suit some modern day softies
Throughout the animal kingdom if the young misbehave they get clipped around the earhole , it would appear the human race has decided to go in the opposite direction and now we have a case where the lunatics are running the asylum
Absolutely ridiculous, this PC has gone way over the top since, they took the ‘Gay Day’ out of the ‘NODDY’ books and banned Roth’s ’Portnoy’s Complaint’. The ban on Roth was lifted however they never allowed Noddy to return to the joy of a ‘GAY DAY’. SAD
Pure madness, if it is ok to say this.
I hate the world
@Mick Mulligan: cannot say that. You might offend someone !
I guarantee that every single one of the Daily Failer-Boomer-Piers Morgan-wannabee types commenting here would have been the FIRST people in the queue to burn books in an actual fascist country in the 1930s. Grow up.
@Barry Joyce:It’s ironic that you’re asking people to grow up and simultaneously agreeing with censorship of books.Censorship of reality practically.Lets just pretend that such and such word was ever in this book.
If you don’t understand how potentially destructive that kind of reasoning leads you then I suppose you’re too far gone to ever realise the absurdity of censoring books for an insane cause.
@Barry Joyce: Well let’s examine your theory, I am completely against this PC, cancelling of the past, of its books, of its movies and the cancelling of people now, for views expressed in the past when the were acceptable, because that’s history.
I am also against the open lunatic asylum that is the current cycle of offense, drama, gender identity and preferred pronouns, not because I have any problem with anyone’s gender identity or sexuality, but because I believe that everyone is an individual and their personal reality inside their head, is not something that can be imposed on everyone else, just because they demand it.
My grandparents on both sides didn’t burn books with facists in the 1930′s/1940′s, they fought against them.
Fatboy slim has to rename himself, enormous slim. Not the same ring to it.
1984.
Absolutely nonsensical
The woke brigade is in full action, what’s next?
Edit the Bible? Burn books?
What happened to plain old freedom of speech??
That’s it the world’s lost the plot altogether, have some people nothing better to do with their little lives than complain about things like this..
What is going on in the world? Would they edit Tolstoy or Shakespeare, Heller or Harper Lee.
@Owen Flynn: Yes. I got roared at back in secondary school for reading out what was printed in a Shakespeare play. All our school books were censored.
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