Cheruiyot Kirui, the Kenyan climber who went missing on Wednesday during an expedition to Mount Everest, has been found dead.
Organisers stated that Kirui’s body was discovered a few metres below the Everest summit point.
“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,” reported the Nepali mountaineering news website Everest Today .
Kirui, a banker at Kenya Commercial Bank, went missing with his guide Sherpa.
Officials from Seven Summit Treks (SST), a mountaineering company based in Kathmandu, Nepal, reportedly lost contact with Kirui and his guide at Bishop Rock, located at an altitude of 8,000 metres.
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