March 28, 2024

Latest Canadian to scale Everest comes home to Vancouver

The latest Canadian to scale the world’s tallest mountain has returned home to Vancouver.

Thirty-one-year old Steve Curtis calls his experience “harrowing.”

“I imagined it would beautiful, but I didn’t have a clue how beautiful it would be. I think there are a few places people can go on Earth that they can see the curvature of the Earth, and to look down on such massive mountains, the Himalayas, and be way above them.”

It didn’t come without its share of tragedy. Curtis says one of his climbing partners died on the descent.

“One of them was a Spanish doctor who lived in the Cayman Islands, and he just kind of, about half way down. He made the summit, which was outstanding, but just above the second step, about half way down. He just sat down and went to sleep and died.”

Mountain overcrowding is being blamed for the death of another Canadian on Everest.

Thirty-three-year old Shriya Shah-Klorfine of Toronto died last weekend on the mountain’s busier south side. Curtis climbed Everest’s north side.

CKNW Vancouver News

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