Bray man Seamus Lawless reportedly fell while descending the world’s highest peak
A spokeswoman for Trinity College said that the university had received notification that Mr Lawless had reached the summit early on Thursday but was seeking further information on his whereabouts.
The Co Wicklow man, who is married with a four-year-old daughter, was climbing Everest as part of a charity effort to raise €25,000 for Barretstown, which supports seriously ill children and their families. The academic was pursuing a lifelong dream to scale the planet’s highest peak by taking time off from his role as an assistant professor in artificial intelligence at Trinity’s School of Computer Science and Statistics.
“I turn 40 in July. My friends are joking that climbing Everest is my mid-life crisis,” Mr Lawless said in an interview published in February before he set off on the 2019 Irish Everest Expedition to Nepal. The Co Wicklow man spoke of his decades-long fascination with the mountain and a National Geographic map of the climbing route up Everest given to him by his father that stayed on his bedroom wall for years.The company reported on Thursday morning that Mr Lawless had reached the peak along with Mr Hanna, another Irish climber Jennifer Shirley and Saray Khumalo of South Africa, the first black African woman to reach the summit.
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