Sherpa on Everest Expedition Dies in Nepal A government official in Nepal says that a Sherpa who was guiding a group of climbers on an Everest expedition has fallen into a crevasse and died. Tilak Pandey of the Ministry of Tourism and Mountaineering says that Namgyal Tshering Sherpa died on Saturday. Few other details were immediately available. Sherpa had scaled the peak twice before. He is the second guide to die while climbing Everest in this year's spring climbing season. Climbers generally try to scale Everest in May. On Wednesday, experienced climber Karsang Namgyal died from altitude sickness. Everest is the world's highest mountain and has an 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak.