A Nepali guide died after summiting the world’s fifth-highest mountain, officials in the Himalayan Republic said Thursday, in the first fatality of the spring climbing season. Lakpa Tenji Sherpa, 53, reached the summit of the 8,485-metre-tall (27,838-feet) Mount Makalu while accompanying foreign climbers on Monday but died as he was descending. “He was unwell and had to be helped down by his team members,” Rakesh Gurung of Nepal’s tourism department told AFP.
