 "Makalu" Gau Ming-Ho led a five-member team to Everest that day.The previous day (9 May), Taiwanese team member Chen Yu-Nan had died following a fall on the Lhotse Face.Half the climbing team from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police North Col expedition from India (Subedar Tsewang Samanla, Lance Naik Dorje Morup, and Head Constable Tsewang Paljor) died on the Northeast Ridge.