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Lhakpa Tenji Sherpa, 54, passed away on May 7 while descending from the world’s fifth highest peak, Makalu (8,463m), which he had summited the previous day.
Lhakpa Tenji was on Makalu working as a guide for the Nepalese expedition outfitter Seven Summit Treks, the country’s largest commercial mountaineering guiding service. He began feeling unwell after accompanying Jordanian client Ahmad Mohammad Mousa Bani-Hani to the summit...