Being famous protects no one
Even Sir Edmund got HAPE once (after Everest) - on Makalu I think. He had a rib injury, and like infection, exhaustion, dehydration, hypothermia and other insults they can increase the odds of HAPE.
The tennis star, according to the article, may have had a GI bug and/or bad weather, or.... was just there where the air is thin.
