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Australia's woman Everest pioneer dies in Nepal fall



Kathmandu, May 29 (IANS) The first Australian woman to climb Mt Everest has died in her attempt to ascend a lesser peak in Nepal, making it the 14th death on the Himalayan ranges this summer.

Sue Fear, 43, fell to her death while climbing Mt Manaslu, the eighth highest peak in the world at 8,163 m but considered more dangerous than the 8,848 m Everest.

Fear was climbing with a Nepali, Bishnu Gurung, and sharing a permit with four others: an Austrian and a small Japanese team including Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mt Everest, in 1975.

She fell into a crevasse along with another unnamed climber, probably Gurung, and was killed. However, the other climber survived.

Details about Fear's accident, including the date, were not known immediately. Mt Manaslu received excessive snowfall this year with torrential winds.

She had summited Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, in 2003 from the northern side through Tibet and was awarded an Order of Australia medal last year by Queen Elizabeth for her achievements in mountaineering.

Fear's death comes even as the mountaineering community rejoiced at the miraculous survival of another Australian climber, Lincoln Ross Hall, who on Thursday was left for dead by his expedition members close to the summit of Mt Everest but survived 12 hours of exposure in the 'Death Zone'.

Fear was a friend of Hall and the two had written a book together, 'Fear No Boundaries: the Road to Everest and Beyond'.

Her death comes at a time when Nepal is celebrating the golden jubilee of the first ascent of Mt Manaslu and has slashed the climbing fee by 50 percent.

It was first summited May 9, 1956, by Japanese climber Toshio Imanishi and India's Gyalzen Norbu Sherpa. Till last year, 240 people had summited the peak and 52 died.

It was also not know immediately how far Junko Tabei had progressed. The Japanese, known as the First Lady of Mt Everest, had celebrated the 30th year of her ascent in Kathmandu last year along with other women Everest summiteers.



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