Indian climber Kanchenjunga

Guwahati:  An Indian died in Nepal while climbing the world’s third-highest peak, Kanchenjunga.

The expedition organisers stated this on Friday which is the third fatality of this year’s busy Himalayan spring climbing season.

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The deceased has been identified as Narayanan Iyer. The 52-year-old man died on Thursday at an altitude of 8,200 metres, near the top of Mount Kanchenjunga.

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Organisers said that he was slower than others and they had two guides to assist him. 

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The climber was very exhausted while scaling the mountain and further he could not continue the climb. But, before anything could be done, he collapsed and died.

The man’s family has been informed about the incident.

Iyer’s death is the third official reported climber death in Nepal this year. Kanchenjunga is the thirdย highest mountain in the world.

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Its summit lies at 8,586ย m (28,169ย ft) in a section of theย Himalayas, theย Kangchenjunga Himal, which is bounded on the west by theย Tamur River, in the north by theย Lhonak Chuย andย Jongsang La, and in the east by theย Teesta River.[It lies in the border region between theย Sikkimย state ofย Indiaย andย Nepal, with three of the five peaks, namely Main, Central and South, directly on the border, and the peaks West and Kangbachen in Nepal’sย Taplejung District.

Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be theย highest mountain in the world, but calculations and measurements by theย Great Trigonometrical Surveyย of India in 1849 showed thatย Mount Everest, known as Peak XV at the time, is the highest.