An American mountaineer, Alexander Pancoe, has died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb.
Pancoe embarked on the climb to raise funds for a children’s cancer program.
This is the second death in the Himalayan nation’s climbing season that began in March.
The world’s fifth-highest mountain, Makalu’s peak is 28,000 feet high — almost as tall as Mount Everest, the world’s tallest peak at a height of 29,032 feet.
Pancoe died on Sunday while he was settling into his sleeping bag at the mountain’s second high camp.
According to the expedition organizer Madison Mountaineering, the 39-year-old has returned from an acclimatization trip at the higher camp three.
“Alex suddenly became unresponsive,”; the company said on its website.
“Despite hours of resuscitation efforts ... they were unable to revive him.”;
