A Kenyan Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) banker is said to have gone missing on Mt Everest as he attempted to climb the tallest mountain in the world without supplementary oxygen.
According to reports the kenyan banker Cheruiyot Kirui is said to have lost contact with his Sherpa guide from above 8,000m of Mt Everest since Wednesday morning and has since been missing.
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The banker is said to have tried going up the mountain without oxygen before showing abnormal behaviour as explained by his tour guide and losing contact with him subsequently.
“Kirui, a banker working with KCB, and his Sherpa guide Nawang were last contacted at the Bishop Rock before they lost contact and hasn’t been located since then. SST has mobilized two Sherpa rescuers to search for them and have reached above balcony area.”
This comes after other two climbers fell down and went missing near Hillary step on Mt Everest since yesterday morning just hours before the kenyan went missing on Wednesday.
Sources claim that the two, Daniel Paul Peterson from UK and Pas Tenji Sherpa from Makalu fell down when a section of route in the Hillary section below the summit point collapsed.
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However, reports indicate that search for the missing persons is currently undergoing but they are presumed dead but authorities have ruled out that possibility until the missing are found to confirm it.