Seamus Lawless search may not go ahead due to safety concerns, expert warns

The search for the Wicklow man missing on Mount Everest won't resume until late next week.

A recovery operation of an Irish father-of-one who fell from the world’s highest mountain may not go ahead due to safety concerns, a leading adventurer and mountaineer believes.

Twice Mount Everest summiteer Pat Falvey, who scaled the Himalayan mountain on two occasions, said it remains unclear how Séamus ‘Shay' Lawless, from Bray, Co Wicklow fell some 500 metres as he was descending from the 8,848 metres summit.