{"id":74576,"date":"2025-05-16T12:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74576"},"modified":"2025-05-16T12:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T07:31:55","slug":"two-climbers-from-india-and-philippines-die-on-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/two-climbers-from-india-and-philippines-die-on-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Two climbers, from India and Philippines, die on Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(REUTERS): An <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/russian-climber-missing-in-pakistan-two-others-injured\/\">Indian climber<\/a> and another from the Philippines became the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the current March-May climbing season of the world\u2019s highest peak, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/life-style\/jemima-goldsmiths-cape-town-hiking-adventure-leads-to-hospital-visit\/\">hiking<\/a> officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849-metre (29,032 feet) peak.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe refused to descend from below the Hillary Step,\u201d said Bodhraj Bhandari of Nepal\u2019s Snowy Horizon Treks and Expedition organising company. No other details were available.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Hillary Step\u00a0is located in the \u2018death zone\u2019, an area between 8,000-metre (26,250 ft) high South Col and the summit where the level of natural oxygen is inadequate for survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEfforts are underway to bring his body down to the base camp. The cause of his death will be known only after post mortem,\u201d Bhandari said.<\/p>\n<p>Philipp II Santiago, 45, from the Philippines, died late on Wednesday at the South Col while he was on his way up, said Himal Gautam, a tourism department official.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago was tired when he reached the fourth high camp and died while resting in his tent, Gautam added.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago and Ghose were both members of an international expedition organised by Bhandari.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal has issued 459\u00a0permits\u00a0to climb Everest during the current season that ends in May. Nearly 100 climbers and their guides have already reached the summit this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain climbing, trekking and tourism is a source of income and employment for Nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world.<\/p>\n<p>At least 345 people have died on Everest in more than 100 years since summiting expeditions were known to have started, according to the Himalayan Database and hiking officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(REUTERS): An Indian climber and another from the Philippines became the first mountaineers to die on Mount Everest in the current March-May climbing season of the world\u2019s highest peak, hiking officials said on Friday. Subrata Ghosh, 45, from India, died on Thursday below the Hillary Step while returning after reaching the 8,849-metre (29,032 feet) peak. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":74577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28750,28751],"class_list":["post-74576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-everest","tag-two-climbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74578,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74576\/revisions\/74578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}