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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 28 May 2019

Colorado climber dies after reaching top of Mount Everest

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado Christopher Kulish had just He described his brother as
climber died shortly after reached the top of Ever- an attorney in his “day job”
getting to the top of Mount est with a small group af- who was “an inveterate
Everest and achieving his ter crowds of hundreds of climber of peaks in Colora-
dream of scaling the high- climbers congested the do, the West and the world
est peaks on each of the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) over.”
seven continents, his broth- peak last week, his brother “He passed away doing
er said Monday. said. what he loved, after return-
Christopher Kulish, a “He saw his last sunrise from ing to the next camp below
62-year-old Boulder at- the highest peak on Earth. the peak,” Mark Kulish said.
torney, died Monday at At that instant, he became About half a dozen climb-
a camp below the sum- a member of the ‘7 Summit ers died on Everest last
mit during his descent. The Club,’ having scaled the week, including Don Cash
cause isn’t yet known, said highest peak on each con- of Utah, who also had ful-
his brother, Mark Kulish of tinent,” Mark Kulish said in a filled his dream of climbing
Denver. statement. the highest mountains on
each continent. Most of
Magnitude 5.8 them died while descend- This April 2019 selfie photo provided by Mark Kulish shows his
brother Christopher Kulish beneath Mount Everest.
ing from the summit dur-
Associated Press
earthquake strikes off ing only a few windows of cause headaches, vom- An equal number of Nep-
iting, shortness of breath alese guides are helping
good weather each May.
southern Alaska coast Most are believed to have and mental confusion. them get to the top.
suffered from altitude sick-
There are 41 teams with a Christopher Kulish also is
ness, which is caused by total of 378 climbers permit- survived by his mother,
HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A that hit 55 miles (89 kilome- low amounts of oxygen at ted to scale Everest during Betty Kulish, and a sister,
magnitude 5.8 earthquake ters) southwest of the small high elevation and can the spring climbing season. Claudia.q
struck off the coast of south- coastal town of Homer.
ern Alaska, but no damage There were more than 1,000
has been reported. reports of people feeling
The U.S. Geological Survey the earthquake on the
says the quake hit around Geological Survey website.
1:50 a.m. Monday south- Devon Hilts, a clerk at the
west of the Kenai Peninsula Land’s End Resort in Homer,
at a depth of 40 miles (65 said that she slept through
kilometers). A dispatcher the temblor but that it
with the Homer Police De- woke up some guests. She
partment said there were says nothing broke and
no reports of damage or she has not heard of any
injuries from the quake damage.q

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