American climber dies on world’s fifth highest peak

An American mountaineer died on Mount Makalu in eastern Nepal during a climb to raise funds for a children’s cancer programme, officials said yesterday, the second death in the Himalayan nation’s climbing season that began in March.

The world’s fifth-highest mountain, Makalu’s peak is 8,463m high, compared to Mount Everest, the tallest peak, at a height of 8,849m.