Search and rescue team unable to find missing Singaporean Everest climber, says wife


Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya summited Mount Everest on May 19 but told his wife he had come down with high-altitude cerebral oedema. - PHOTO: SUSHMASAURUS/INSTAGRAM

SINGAPORE, May 27 (The Straits Times/ANN): The search and rescue team was unable to locate the missing Singaporean climber who reached Mount Everest’s summit despite their best efforts, the climber’s wife said in an Instagram post on Saturday.

Interspersing her message between pictures of her husband Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya on various mountain peaks, Madam Sushma Soma, a 36-year-old musician, said: “He was 39, and in his glorious and rich life, he lived fearlessly and to the fullest. He explored the depth of the sea and scaled the greatest heights of the Earth.

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