Chinese climber dead, two missing during Dhaulagiri ascent
By Sudeshna Sarkar | 17 May 2010 | 11:10am 0 Comment
Kathmandu, May 17 (IANS) Even as official celebrations were on to mark the golden jubilee of the first ascent of Mt Dhaulagiri, a Chinese climber was killed and two of his fellow climbers missing on the slopes of the seventh highest peak in the world, authorities said.
Kathmandu, May 17 (IANS) Even as official celebrations were on to mark the golden jubilee of the first ascent of Mt Dhaulagiri, a Chinese climber was killed and two of his fellow climbers missing on the slopes of the seventh highest peak in the world, authorities said.
Liyang Zao, a 35-year-old climber who was part of a nine-member expedition to the peak, fell to his death Saturday due to bad weather, Nepal's tourism and civil aviation ministry said.
Two more climbers who were part of the same expedition are still missing despite a hunt for them, including helicopter searches. The chances of survival have been receding due to the freezing cold, bad weather and lack of food and shelter.
The three climbers had reached the top of the 8,167 m peak and were coming down when they ran into bad weather and a 'white-out', a thick fog that made movement difficult and dangerous.
While one member had abandoned the climb earlier, the remaining five returned to Kathmandu Saturday, exhausted and traumatised.
早些时候一名队员放弃登顶，剩下的五名队员在周六返回加德满都时，疲惫不堪，而且极度受惊。
Two of them have been admitted to hospital with severe frost bite.
他们中的两名队员因严重的冻伤入院治疗。
'Though Dhaulagiri is not a difficult mountain to climb yet you can never predict anything with the Himalayan ranges,' said Ang Tshering Sherpa, former chief of Nepal Mountaineering Association, a private body entrusted with promoting mountain tourism in Nepal.
Ang Tshering Sherpa，前尼泊尔登山运动员协会主管，说，虽然登上道拉吉里峰并不困难，但是你无法预计关于喜马拉雅山脉的任何事情。尼泊尔登山运动员协会是受委托致力于促进尼泊尔登山旅游事业的一个私人组织。
The Dhaulagiri disaster comes as Nepal held three-day celebrations in Kathmandu, Pokhara and Baglung to mark the first ascent of the milky white peak May 13, 1960 by an Austrian-Swiss expedition.
Of the six people who had climbed the peak 50 years ago, only Kurt Diemberger, now 69, is alive.
在50年前登顶的6人当中，只有今年69岁的Kurt Diemberger还在人间。
The Austrian writer-film maker was in Kathmandu to take part in the celebrations.
这位奥地利电影剧作家和制片人在加德满都参加庆祝活动。
This season, the Himalayan ranges have already claimed two more lives.
在这个登山季节，喜马拉雅山脉已经使另外两名登山者遇难。
Last month, Russian climber Sergei Duganov died while attempting Mt Lhotse, the fourth highest peak at 8,511, and a team of climbers managed to bring his body down.
Spanish climber Tolo Calafat died of cerebral oedema last month while attempting Mt Annapurna, a tricky Himalayan peak with a 40 percent casualty incidence.
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