Kuala Lumpur: Difficult tasks await the search team looking for missing Everest climber Hawari Hashim, 33, if he has fallen to the base of the nearby Mount Lhotse, says climber M Magendran.
Hawari, who is hearing-impaired, was reported missing yesterday after he had reached the summit of Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.Magendran, the first Malaysian to reach the summit, said the slopes of Mount Lhotse are very steep. Climbers who slip are likely to fall on the glaciers at the mountain’s base. “The area at the foot of Mount Lhotse is quite wide and it will take a long time to search.
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