Slovak Marek Hudak fell and died on Shisha Pangma  during ascent via south face in the altitude 7600 m. His body has not been found yet. The Slovak officials announced the news on Friday.

Slovak embassy in Peking received on Friday the news by fax from Mountaineering association of Tibet region of China and the members of the Slovak Expedition confirmed it, Slovak media reported.

Marek Hudak climbed to Shisha Pangma (8046 m) with Jozef (Dodo) Kopold. Kopold reached the summit successfully , Hudak turned back just under the summit range and should return to the last camp or base camp.

Source (in Slovak): www.8000.sk

Dodo Kopold informed the last week that Marek Hudak had beeen missing. He tried to find him with help of Korean expedition which stayd in the area.

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