Kuntal Karar (left) and Biplab Baidya started the expedition on April 4. (Express)Two Indian mountaineers have died and one is missing while scaling mountains in Nepal, shortly after two mountaineers from the country had died in the Himalayan nation. Army soldier Ravi Thakar, 28, was found dead inside his tent at Camp IV on Mount Everest early Friday. He reportedly died after suffering from high altitude sickness. “Fellow climbers found him dead inside the tent,” Mingma Sherpa, Chairman at Seven Summit Treks, was quoted as saying by The Himalayan Times.
Thakar was part of an eight-member expedition led by renowned Irish climber Noel Richard Hanna. He, along with other team members, made it to the summit of Mt Everest on Thursday morning.
Another member of the same expedition — Seamus Sean Lawless from Ireland — slipped from the balcony area while descending from the summit point. Mountaineer Narayan Singh died at Camp IV on Thursday night while he was climbing down from the 8,485-meter Mount Makalu summit. “Indian climber Narayan Singh died in Mt Makalu. He died at camp 4 while descending the summit,” nepal Tourism Ministry official Mira Acharya told PTI.
Meanwhile, Dipankar Ghosh, 52, has gone missing while descending from Mount Makalu. The team that reached the spot has been unable to trace him.
“He supposedly reached the summit point in the afternoon and was stuck somewhere high above 8000m with his sherpa and other climbers from a 16-member…
