At least 3 climbers die on Mount Everest

"Our liaison officer deputed on Mount Everest has confirmed that he died after he fell some 150 to 200 metres down from the Balcony while he was descending after the summit", he said. Fortunately, he was brought down safely on that occasion.

Yearwood was trained as a doctor in London and NY and eventually settled in southern Alabama, where he had been a primary care physician for 20 years, according to his biography on the rural health centre's website.

A Slovak climber Vladimir Strba, 50, also died on Everest on Sunday, according to a Tourism Ministry official.

The Indian mountaineer Ravi Kumar, 27, reached the top Saturday, but has been missing since then, since his contact had been lost.

The Himalayan Times reported that Yearwood died at an altitude of 8,000 meters, which is roughly 800 meters - or 2,600 feet - below the summit.

"It was not possible to retrieve the body immediately", Chowang Sherpa, the managing director of Arun Treks and Expedition which was managing Kumar's trip, said.

Search teams continue to look for Kumar, the Indian climber missing since Saturday.

On Monday, per NPR, the body of a fourth climber was recovered, bringing the official death toll for this Everest climbing season to six people.

In April, famed mountaineer Ueli Steck died while attempting the climb. The guide left Kumar with a supply of supplemental oxygen and went down the mountain to call for rescue.

According to Chowang, when three high-altitude guides reached the place, they didn't find Kumar there.

The climbers - including an American doctor and mountaineers from Slovakia and Australia - died during brief windows of good weather that allowed a push toward the summit near the end of the busiest climbing seasons on record.

This year, a record number of climbers are trying to scale the world's highest peak, with 375 foreigners issued permits, the most since 1953. The increased number of climbers this year is likely because many were unable to climb in 2014 and 2015, when deadly avalanches disrupted the climbing seasons.

And yet on Sunday, according to the newspaper, about 60 climbers successfully made it to the summit on the Nepali side.

Balcony is the final resting spot before climbers ascend the south summit of the Everest.

According to a profile on the Georgiana Medical Center's website, Yearwood had been trying to climb the highest peaks on each of the world's seven continents.

Climbing Everest is an inherently risky activity with risks of sicknesses related to high altitude such as cerebral edema, a swelling of the brain that can be fatal.