Cheruiyot Kirui, a Kenyan climber who went missing on Wednesday during an expedition to Mount Everest, has been found dead.
Organizers reported that Kirui’s body was discovered a few meters below the Everest summit.
“He was on a daring mission to reach the summit without supplementary oxygen and was accompanied by a Nepali climber, Nawang Sherpa, whose fate is still unknown,” stated a Thursday report by the Nepali mountaineering news website, Everest Today. Kirui and his guide, Sherpa, went missing together.
Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, stands at an elevation of 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet) above sea level. It straddles the border between China and Nepal.
