KATHMANDU: An American trekker has died of suspected altitude sickness after falling unconscious in Nepal, police said Monday.
The 53-year-old was hiking with two friends to Nepal’s remote Upper Mustang region, an alpine desert with a maximum altitude of 3,840 metres (12,600 feet).
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