KATHMANDU, May 11: Dead body of an experienced Peruvian climber Richard Hidalgo has been brought to Kathmandu from Mt Makalu on Friday.
Hidalgo, who was on a mission to climb Mt Makalu, the fifth highest mountain in the world without supplemental oxygen was found dead at camp 2 (6,500 meters) of the mountain on Wednesday morning.“We brought Richard's body to Kathmandu and it is currently at the TU Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj for a post mortem,” the expedition organizer, Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd, informed.
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A team of nine Sherpas had brought the body down from camp 2 to the Makalu Base Camp and a helicopter airlifted the body to Kathmandu. Currently, doctors are conducting autopsy of the body.
The body of the deceased climber will be sent back to Peru once the autopsy is conducted, according to the expedition company.
Hidalgo is the second climber to die in Nepal's mountain in this spring season. Previously, a 48-year-old Wui Kin Chin, who was rescued from 7,500 meters of Mt Annapurna I, had died in Singapore in first week of May.
