Suhajda Szilárd can be 42 years outdated on June 29. Final 12 months, on Could 21, he set off from the bottom camp at 5,500 meters in an effort to attain the best mountain on Earth, the 8,848-meter-high Mount Everest, on Could 24, utilizing the campsites he had constructed earlier. He deliberate all of this in a basic model, with out an oxygen bottle or Sherpas serving to him climb and carrying his gear.
On Could 24, 2023, through the summit assault of Mount Everest, radio contact with him was misplaced. What may have gone mistaken, what may have occurred, can solely be guessed. It is rather doubtless that the climber grew to become dizzy from the dearth of oxygen, received misplaced, fell, froze to demise due to this.
– On the early night of Could 25, the home background group discovered {that a} Sherpa from one other expedition had seen Szilárd at round 8,780 meters within the morning – recalled Kornél Tamási, an acquaintance of the climber. – He confirmed indicators of life and waved, however in response to later information, frostbite accidents have been seen on his face and he might have fainted from the dearth of oxygen brought on by altitude illness. It was not moored, it lay removed from the climbers’ path, so they didn’t go down for it, they only reported what that they had seen on the radio. This isn’t inhumanity, that group’s personal security was the primary, that they had no rescue gear.
Tímea Legindi, the expedition’s communications supervisor, spouse of Szilárd Suhajda, instantly started organizing the rescue of the athlete who had been lacking for greater than 24 hours. A helicopter was requested to establish the situation indicated by the opposite group, and the perfect Sherpas have been alerted to go as much as Szilárd. By the point they received to the highest, two complete days had handed for the reason that climber’s final message, however they didn’t discover Szilárd on the specified place, both he had fallen, or he had been swept away by an avalanche, buried by the snow, as a result of it’s sure that he wouldn’t have been capable of set out in his situation. The Sherpas descended with a rope, searched the realm, however have been unsuccessful. On the twenty eighth, they launched one other helicopter search, and when that did not deliver any outcomes, they introduced Szilárd’s demise, as he wouldn’t have survived any longer within the mountains wholesome, even with an oxygen bottle.
In line with Szilárd Suhajda’s widow, there isn’t a extra dignified resting place for her husband than the Himalayas / Photograph: Gábor Czerkl
– Grief does not go away, life solely grows round it – Szilárd Suhajda’s spouse stated on her social media web page concerning the anniversary. – In latest days, I’ve been pondering so much about whether or not the previous 12 months has handed slowly or shortly, however I can not clearly determine in favor of 1 or the opposite. We tried to arrange a number of joint applications with Soma, do a number of sports activities, and within the meantime I ran my first marathon. I began giving lectures underneath the title of getting stronger even in disaster, and in Transylvania I advised concerning the background experiences of the expedition. It’s a good feeling to know that with my displays I can provide energy to others and encourage them, and these events additionally assist me within the grief processing course of. However that does not imply it is easy for me, as a result of it is by no means. However I imagine that each troublesome state of affairs is a chance for development, irrespective of how painful it’s.
Suhajda Szilárd’s spouse: they can not deliver my husband’s physique down from Everest!
In relation to the truth that the Nepalese authorities also can accumulate the stays of climbers who died within the clean-up operation, Suhajda Szilárd’s spouse advised Blikk the next:
– I do not need Szilárd’s physique to be introduced down from Everest, that is my private dedication and resolution. There are a number of causes for this. On the one hand, through the search, his physique was not discovered the place it ought to have been, and then again, such a analysis expedition is dangerous, and those that would try it may put themselves in peril.
Szilárd Suhajda’s household accepted that the mountaineer won’t ever return house in any type. Photograph: Blikk / Gábor Czerkl
