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A Macedonian climber died Sunday while making a final push for the summit of Mount Everest, the latest fatality of the current spring climbing season in the Nepali Himalayas.

The 62-year-old collapsed above Camp Three at 7,200 metres (23,625 feet).

“Our team at the base camp confirms his death,” Iswari Poudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, his expedition organiser, told AFP.
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Local media reported that the climber died of a cardiac arrest. It was the fourth death of the season.

Last week a solo Russian climber died of altitude problems just below the summit of Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest peak that borders Everest.

A sherpa guide is presumed dead after he went missing on his descent from the summit of Everest.
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An Italian climber died last month on Mount Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh highest peak.

Around 400 people have so far reached the summit of Everest as the busy spring climbing season — which runs from April to May — gets into full swing.

Nepal is home to eight of the world’s 14 highest peaks and foreign climbers who flock to its mountains are a major source of revenue.
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