Who was Alexander Pancoe? US climber dies in Nepal while trying to scale world's 5th highest mountain
Alexander Pancoe, 39, died at Camp 2 of the 8,485-metre (27,838-feet) Makalu on Sunday evening.
'He had descended after an acclimatisation rotation to Camp Three, and was not feeling well,' Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, told AFP.
Paudel said that attempts were being made to bring his body down.
An accomplished climber, Pancoe had survived a brain tumour when he was younger.
He had completed the Explorer's Grand Slam, a challenge that involves climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents and then skiing to both the North and South Pole.
Pancoe was recently fighting chronic myeloid leukaemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for the paediatric blood cancer programme of the Lurie Children's Hospital, based in Chicago.
'It's going to be a huge challenge for me -- climbing at altitude is plenty hard without a chronic ailment -- but I look forward to rising to the challenge,' he said on his website Peaks of Mind.
An Austrian climber died while descending Nepal's Ama Dablam after a successful summit last month, the first death of the summit season.
Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and welcomes hundreds of climbers every year during the spring and autumn climbing seasons.
It has already issued nearly 500 permits for its mountains this season, including 214 for Everest.
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