India’s top mountaineer Rajib Bhattachary died on Mt. Dhaulagiri on Thursday afternoon while getting down from the mountain’s peak. The 43-year-old mountaineer hailing from West Bengal’s Howrah district had complained of difficulty in vision before collapsing between the peak and Camp III.
According to the sources,the ace climber’s body is still lying in the camp due to treacherous terrain, it is going to very difficult to bring it down. Mt. Dhaulagiri is located at 8,167 m above the sea level, its the seventh highest mountain in the world.
“There was heavy snowfall when the team was returning from the peak. Bhattacharya complained of snow blindness and collapsed. He died soon after at an altitude of 7,600 metres,” said Mingma Sherpa of Kathmandu-based Seven Summit Treks, the expedition organiser.
“There were Sherpa guides with him when the incident occurred. We still don’t know what was the exact cause of death,” said Nivesh Karki, another official of Seven Summit Treks.
Earlier, Bhattachary had climbed Mount Everest in 2011 and Mount Kanchenjunga in 2013.
