Shriya Shah-Klorfine

Mount Everest Dept: The shock was compounded when I learned that it was 33-year-old Shriya Shah-Klorfine from Mississauga, Ont., who had succumbed on the mountain. She was someone I'd had the pleasure of meeting on a few occasions, according to CBC. But Shriya's reasoning to attempt Everest like so many of the things that appeared to motivate her was a mix of the personal and the public, something that has often been lost in many of the stories I've read about her in recent days and like many Canadians, I was shocked by the news that a Canadian had died during an attempt to scale Mount Everest earlier this month. She had actually invited me to one of her fundraisers for the Everest climb and I remember thinking, "Why would anyone want to do this?" (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.