Lost Hungaria Mountaineers Disdained Use Of Sherpas
- 24 May 2013 8:59 AM
The two Hungarian mountaineers who died near the summit of Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas on Tuesday were among several who did not want to pay for the work of sherpas but used their ropes, a Spanish climber who decided to stop short of the peak said yesterday.
Carlos Soria, 74, told news website Desnivel that Kangchenjunga is not like Mount Everest, in that climbers must place their own ropes and rely less on sherpas than on the more famous peak.
He said a group which included Hungarians Zsolt Erõss and Péter Kiss continued climbing to a point where there were no more ropes on the mountain and that was the cause of their deaths.
Péter Farkas, president of the Hungarian Mountaineers Federation, said Erõss and Kiss had not rested before scaling the summit and should have turned back.
Source: Hungary Around the Clock
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