Search for Irish climber missing on Everest temporarily suspended

The search is unlikely to get back underway today as night falls on the mountain and the situation will be reassessed tomorrow morning

Search for Irish climber missing on Everest temporarily suspended

The search for a missing Trinity College professor on Mount Everest has been temporarily suspended due to bad weather conditions on the mountain.

Seamus Lawless, an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, had been part of a four-strong Irish expedition team which had successfully conquered the world's highest peak.

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