US doctor killed on Everest was climbing tallest peaks

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A global adventurer when he wasn’t seeing patients in small-town Alabama, Dr. Roland Yearwood recently left his rural home to face the same challenge that could have killed him two years ago: Scaling Mount Everest.
This time, Everest won.
Yearwood, a 50-year-old doctor who practiced medicine in Georgiana, Alabama, died near the summit of the world’s highest peak on Sunday, one of four people who Nepalese tourism officials said were killed on the mountain