An Indian man and a Filipino man who were part of the same climbing expedition died on Mount Everest. They are the first two foreigners to die on the Nepali summit this season.
Philipp Santiago II, 45, from the Philippines, reached the Camp IV ground on the 29,032-foot-tall Himalayan peak Wednesday night to prepare to push for the summit of the mountain the next day. He died at the camp after arriving visibly fatigued, according to a Nepal Department of Tourism.
Mr. Santiago was the first non-Nepali national to die during the 2025 spring climbing season, which tends to last between March and the end of May.
Both he and fellow climber Subrata Ghosh, 45, of India, were part of the Mountaineering Association of Krishnanagar-Snowy Everest Expedition 2025.
Indian climber Subrata Ghosh, 45, managed to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday but suffered from altitude sickness and refused to continue his descent, organizer Bodha Raj Bhandari told the Himalayan Times.
He died near the former location of the Hillary Step rock face.
The organizers have yet to decide if the bodies will be brought down the mountain, Mr. Bhandari told The Associated Press.
The cost of retrieving the bodies is expensive, since multiple people are needed to help get them down the slopes of Mount Everest.
