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The sad news from the Himalayas don’t stop. On the 8000er Shishapangma in Tibet a German climber died of a high altitude cerebral edema.

The expedition agency Amical alpin informed that the climber from the Bavarian region Chiemgau had belonged to a group of six members who, together with expedition leader Thomas Laemmle and their Climbing Sherpa Pasang, had reached the 8013-meter-high central summit of Shishapangma on 10th May.

While descending the climber at first had shown symptoms of a high altitude pulmonary edema.

Abseiled down to 7500 metres

„An immediate treatment with emergency medicine as well as the descent initially showed little effect,” Amical said.

Thomas Laemmle, a sports scientist very experienced in high altitude medicine, decided to send the other members ahead to the lower camp. He wanted to lead down the altitude-sick climber slowly, on short rope. The following night the climber