Highly experienced American mountaineer dies of cardiac arrest climbing 27,838 ft peak - Alexander Pancoe was suffering from ...

The renowned mountaineer from Illinois felt unwell late on Sunday night at Camp II after returning from Camp III, Iswari Paudel, managing director at Himalayan Guides, the expedition organiser, told ...

Alexander Pancoe recently fought chronic myeloid leukemia and was attempting to climb Makalu to raise funds for a pediatric ...

Mr Pancoe, who was battling leukaemia, raised around £400,000 for charity over the years.

An American mountaineer who was climbing to raise funds for a children's cancer charity has died on a Himalayan peak while ...

A 39-year-old US climber died attempting to scale the world's fifth-highest mountain, Makalu, marking the second death of ...