An experienced Kenyan mountaineer died Wednesday and rescuers are still searching for the Nepali sherpa who was with him, after the team attempted to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, according to the Nepali government and his employer. “His sherpa is still missing and the expedition agency is still searching for him,” the official Gautam Khim Lal also told CNN by phone, was speaking from the foot of the mountain.
He listed drugs he was bringing along for any potential illnesses or frostbite and said his guide would also carry an emergency bottle of oxygen. “And so after heavy investment physically, mentally, timewise , financially … it’s now the moment of truth,” he wrote. Congratulatory comments and good luck wishes on the Instagram post were soon replaced by condolence messages as word spread that his body had been found.