“Into the face of the young man... there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that a hurling fan is about to talk Gaelic football.”

An Irish man has died attempting to reach the summit of Everest days after his wife gave birth to a baby girl.

Babu Chhiri, a renowned Sherpa guide listed in the Guinness Book of Records for having climbed Mount Everest in 17 hours, died when he fell into crevasse of the world’s highest peak.