{"id":24443,"date":"2019-05-29T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/boulder-attorney-reaches-everest-summit-dies-during-descent\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T16:08:00","slug":"boulder-attorney-reaches-everest-summit-dies-during-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/boulder-attorney-reaches-everest-summit-dies-during-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulder attorney reaches Everest summit, dies during descent"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chris Kulish with Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse in the background.<\/strong>
Courtesy Mark Kulish<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Boulder attorney Christopher Kulish achieved a life\u2019s goal by climbing the highest peak in each of the planet\u2019s seven continents when he summited Mount Everest \u2014 and then died early Monday morning shortly afterward during his descent.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe saw his last sunrise from the highest peak on Earth. At that instant, he became a member of the \u20187 Summit Club,\u2019 having scaled the highest peak on each continent,\u201d his brother, Mark Kulish of Denver, said in a news release on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are heartbroken at this news,\u201d Mark Kulish wrote.<\/p>\n

Kulish, who turned 62 in April, died early Monday morning at the next camp below the summit on the southeast ridge, his brother said. He had scaled the world\u2019s highest peak in a small group in nearly ideal weather after last week\u2019s crowds had cleared Everest, his brother said.<\/p>\n

His death marked the 11th fatality on Everest this season after a record 381 permits were issued to climb Everest, according to The Associated Press. Another American, Don Cash, 55, of Utah, died there last week, AP reported. Most are believed to have suffered from altitude sickness, which is caused by low amounts of oxygen at high elevation and can cause headaches, vomiting, shortness of breath and mental confusion.<\/p>\n

Read more via The Denver Post: bit.ly\/BoulderEverest<\/p>\n

via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Kulish with Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse in the background.Courtesy Mark Kulish Boulder attorney Christopher Kulish achieved a life\u2019s goal by climbing the highest peak in each of the planet\u2019s seven continents when he summited Mount Everest \u2014 and then died early Monday morning shortly afterward during his descent. \u201cHe saw his last sunrise from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 07:14:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}