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Deaths of British, Irish Climbers Add to Everest Toll

The deaths of an Irish and a British climber on Mount Everest took the toll from a deadly week on the world’s highest peak to 10, expedition organizers said Saturday. British climber Robin Fisher, 44, reached the summit Saturday morning but collapsed when he had got just 150 meters back down the slope.  “Our guides tried to help, but he died soon after,” Murari Sharma of Everest Parivar Expedition told AFP.  On the northern Tibet side of the mountain, a 56-year-old Irish...


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