The Mount Everest 2026 Season Killed This Sherpa — And He Won’t Be The Last

The Mount Everest 2026 Season Killed This Sherpa — And He Won’t Be The Last A 20-year-old with an Everest summit already on his record. A family lineage that built modern mountaineering. A night climb he had done before, on a face he knew, with a team around him. And then — four hundred metres of ice, covered in seconds. The 2026 Everest season is brutal. Phura Gyaljen Sherpa was not a tourist. He was the grandson of Ang Rita, the Snow Leopard — the man who summited Everest ten times without supplemental oxygen. He had trained as a monk before the mountain called him back. At nineteen, in his first professional season, he stood on the highest point on earth. He spent the winter guiding in the Alps. He came back for his second year because he was exactly the kind of climber who was supposed to have a long career ahead of him. He was twenty years old when he slipped on the Lhotse Face at 11:20 PM on May 11th, 2026. His teammates pulled him from a crevasse in the dark and carried him down themselves, because that is what you do on Everest for one of your own. What actually happened in those final seconds? The answer involves night climbing on fifty-five-degree glass ice, four hours of load fatigue at seven thousand metres, hypoxic fog, and one unconfirmed detail that changes everything — whether he was clipped to the fixed rope at all. No single factor kills a climber. But sometimes the holes in the Swiss cheese line up perfectly. This is one of those nights. 🎥 Watch the video for the full story. 🔔 Subscribe for more real mountain tragedies:    / channel   Music from Free To Use Source: https://freetouse.com/music Frozen Worlds by Project Ex DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]