Don Cash, 55, from Sandy, died while descending from the Everest summit Wednesday, according to a report in The Himalayan Times. He died a few meters below the Hillary Step, a vertical rock face on the southeast side of the world’s tallest mountain, the report said.
Guides helped Cash get to the summit early Wednesday morning, and tried to offer him oxygen on the way down, said Pasang Sherpa, chairman of Pioneer Adventure Pvt. Ltd., according to the Times.
The climbing website Gripped.com quoted a Himalayan reporter, Alan Arnette, who wrote on his blog that Cash’s guides carried him to the Hillary Step, but a two-hour traffic jam on the fixed ropes there stopped them from descending further.