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AFP
Kathmandu
Two Sherpa guides working on Everest were confirmed dead Tuesday, bringing the death toll on the world's highest peak this spring climbing season to five.
The two guides -- both ethnic Sherpas from the valleys that surround Everest -- were working on opposite sides of the mountain, which straddles the border between Nepal and Tibet.
Experienced guide Damai Sarki Sherpa, 37, fell more than 60 metres into a crevasse on Monday as he was helping a foreign climber to a rescue helicopter on the Nepal side of the mountain.
"He was rescued but had a very bad head injury. He died last night,"Gyanendra Shrestha, a government official at Everest base camp, sais.
Mingma Gelu Sherpa, of Seven Summit Adventure company, said one of their guides died last Friday.
Pasang Norbu Sherpa perished just below the summit in Tibet from a suspected heart attack, his employer said Tuesday.
A third guide, Lama Babu Sherpa, went missing near Everest's summit earlier this month and is presumed dead.
