A ten-member Sherpa team started a drive Saturday to recover the body of Bangladeshi mountaineer and filmmaker Sajal Khaled.
They started the body searching drive in the “Death Zone” of Everest on Saturday afternoon.
Sajal died at a height 28,750 feet while descending after conquering the Mount Everest on May 20.
Two of his friends-- Riaz Ahmed and Babu-- reached Kathmandu on Thursday to help the team in the drive, reports banglanews24.com.
On Thursday, the government decided to bring back the body of Sajal Khaled.
Sajal along with a South Korean mountaineer died on Mount Everest as hundreds from across the globe flock the world’s highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said on May 21.
Both died in their tent a few hours after successfully climbing the summit. They ran short of supplementary oxygen, officials said.
“Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday,” an official with the tourism ministry told AFP from Everest Base Camp.
“The exact cause of death is unknown, but altitude played a part,” said the official, Gyanendra Shrestha, adding that the bodies would not be recovered until after the summit season ended so as not to interrupt other climbers.
Both men perished in the “death zone” -- above 8,000 metres, notorious for its difficult terrain and thin air.
According to a survey report by liveleak.com, Mount Everest has around 200 dead bodies on the mountain at this moment and it is nearly impossible for recovery of a body off the mountain.
The “death zone” is 26,000 feet. The air there is so thin. Lack of oxygen leaves climber bewildered and weak and can cause them to pass out and get frostbite. Many people lose their lives here. The bodies are left the same as how they died and have even become landmarks for other travellers.