Rescue helicopter plucks Maria Strydom's body from Everest


  • World
  • Friday, 27 May 2016

A porter carries goods at camp four at Everest, in this picture taken on May 20, 2016. Phurba Tenjing Sherpa/Handout via REUTERS

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A rescue helicopter brought the body of Australian climber Maria Strydom from Mount Everest to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu on Friday, a week after she died on the world's tallest mountain.

Strydom, 34, was nearing the 8,850-metre (29,035 foot) summit when she fell ill with altitude sickness and had to turn back. She died last Saturday.

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