Australian teen climbs Mount Everest
An Australian woman and a Dutch mountaineer have died of altitude sickness on Mount Everest, the first fatalities since expeditions resumed this year. 
The Australian climber, aged in her 30s, was on her way down from Camp 4 to Camp 3 when she fell ill and died on Saturday afternoon, Pasang Phurba Sherpa, a board director at Seven Summit Treks, said.
"After reaching the summit yesterday she said she was feeling very weak and suffering from a loss of energy... signs of altitude sickness," Sherpa said.
"She was in her mid-thirties."
The Dutch mountaineer, named as Eric Arnold, also suffered a bout of altitude sickness and died at Camp 4 late Friday while descending the world's highest mountain, according to Seven Summit Treks, which organised both climbers' expeditions.
The tragedy comes as Queensland teen Alyssa Azar has succeeded in her bid to become the youngest  Australian in history to scale Mount Everest.
Sherpa said the bodies were at an elevation of 8000 metres and it would be a couple of days before they could airlift them to Kathmandu and hand them over to relatives, who had been informed.
They are the first fatalities on the world's highest peak since expeditions resumed this year.
Everest expeditions in 2014 were cancelled after 16 sherpas died in an icefall avalanche.
In 2015, another avalanche triggered by a 7.8-magnitude quake killed 19 mountaineers at Everest Base Camp, prompting the cancellation of all trips.
DAP