At Least Four Mount Everest Climbers Dead

(Kathmandu, Nepal)  –  At least four people are now dead after coming down the southern slope of Mount Everest.  The victims are identified as a 61-year-old German medical doctor, a Canadian woman and a man from South Korea and a man from China.  An official with the group Asian Trekking says the climbers likely became weak while descending from the 29-thousand-foot summit of the world’s highest peak and developed altitude sickness.  He said the doctor died of high-altitude cerebral edema, a severe and often fatal form of altitude sickness.  The four deaths bring the number of people killed on Everest this year to six.