[HIGHLIGHTS] Under these circumstances, the Füssen extreme mountaineer Stitzinger died in the Himalayas

Extreme mountaineer Luis Stitzinger from Füssen died last weekend on the Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas. On Tuesday, a rescue team found the body of the 54-year-old at around 8,400 meters.

The 8,586-meter-high KangchenJunga was the tenth eight-thousander that the Stitzingers had climbed without supplemental oxygen. The man's wife Alix von Melle said goodbye to her husband on social media.