TORONTO - The body of a Canadian woman who died while returning from the summit of Mount Everest is one step closer to being evacuated from the mountain.
A spokesman from Utmost Adventure Trekking says a team of climbers managed to bring Shriya Shah-Klorfine's remains down within helicopter rescue range earlier today.
Bad weather has grounded all helicopters, however, and Shah-Klorfine's body will not be flown off the peak until Tuesday afternoon.
Shah-Klorfine was among four climbers who died while trying to scale Mount Everest on May 19.
They died under what's being described as overcrowded conditions in the mountain's so-called death zone in the final stretch of the climb.
The 34-year-old from Toronto had previously stated that climbing Everest was a long-held dream.
A Canadian woman who was climbing Mount Everest the same weekend four others died provided a chilling description of her own perilous journey, saying the mountain seemed "like a morgue." The tweets, below, from Sandra Leduc come as another 200 climbers attempt to scale the 8,850-metre peak between Friday and Sunday, and Nepalese officials say there is little they can do to control the rush. READ MORE
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CP | Posted: 05/28/2012 9:45 am Updated: 05/28/2012 4:34 pm