Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world's highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday.
Kostrikin, 55, died at the camp, which is located at an altitude of around 5,360 meters during a rotation on the 8,848-meter mountain on Saturday, said Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai, an official of Nepal's Department of Tourism.
