View Experienced Mountaineer Who Died In Everest Background. Mount everest, at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft), is the world's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers, but climbing it can be hazardous. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on mount everest at the time and the third deadliest after the 16 fatalities of the 2014 mount everest avalanche and the 22.
Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on mount everest at the time and the third deadliest after the 16 fatalities of the 2014 mount everest avalanche and the 22.
Landgraf, an austria n builder, also died on may 23 on his way down from the summit, kobler & partner, a mountaineering company based in switzerland, said in a statement. An experienced mountaineer has described the death, carnage and chaos at the top of mount everest as climbers pushed past bodies to reach the world's highest summit. He was one of a small number of climbers to summit the two highest peaks on earth. American john kulish, 61, died at south col on the descent from the summit of mount everest on monday.