{"id":10084,"date":"2013-05-21T21:58:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2013-05-21T21:58:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:58:04","slug":"bangladeshi-south-korean-climbers-die-on-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi, South Korean climbers die on Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/everest-graphic-620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10087\" alt=\"everest-graphic-620\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/everest-graphic-620.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/everest-graphic-620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/everest-graphic-620-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/everest-graphic-620-493x300.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world&#8217;s highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday,&#8221; an official with the tourism ministry told AFP from Everest Base Camp.<br \/>\nSung Ho-Seo, 34, of South Korea was attempting the climb without supplementary oxygen and died on his way down the mountain.<br \/>\nMohammed Hossain, 35, from Bangladesh, died in his tent a few hours after successfully climbing the summit.<br \/>\n&#8220;The exact cause of death is unknown, but altitude played a part,&#8221; said the official, Gyanendra Shrestha, adding that the bodies would not be recovered until after the summit season ended so as not to interrupt other climbers.<br \/>\nBoth men perished in the &#8220;death zone&#8221; &#8212; above 8,000 metres, notorious for its difficult terrain and thin air.<br \/>\nFive other climbers have died on the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}