Scottish climber dies on Everest

A Scottish climber died near the summit of Mount Everest today, Nepalese mountaineering officials said.

Scottish climber dies on Everest
Sun, 05 Jun, 2005 - 16:15

A Scottish climber died near the summit of Mount Everest today, Nepalese mountaineering officials said.

Robert William Milne, a 49-year-old software engineer from Edinburgh, was about 1,200ft short of the 29,035ft summit of the world’s highest mountain when he died, said Mountaineering Department official Umesh Singh.

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