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Reuters

An Indian climber died during a summit push on Mount Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain, a hiking official said on Saturday.
The death is the third to be reported on Nepal Himalayas during the current climbing season which started in March.
Narayanan Iyer, 52, died around 8,200 metres (26,900 feet, above sea level while trying to reach the 8,586 metre (28,169 feet) peak on Thursday, said Nivesh Karki, an official of the hiking company that organised the expedition.
Climbers call 8,400 metres the “death zone”, an area where people can easily die due to lack of oxygen, frostbite and cold.
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“Iyer’s guide advised him to turn back after he was feeling unwell but he refused,” Karki said while confirming the death.
Last month a Greek climber and a Nepali Sherpa guide died on other peaks.
Mountain climbing is the main tourism activity and a key source of income as well as employment in Nepal, which has eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest.
More than 900 foreign mountaineers have received permits to climb 26 Himalayan peaks in Nepal, including Mount Everest, during the current season ending in May.

There were three deaths on Mount Everest this time last year – the beginning of the region’s climbing season – including a Sherpa guide who fell into a crevasse. Pemba Tashi Sherpa was descending from Camp 2 to Camp 1 when he plunged into the deep opening.
Exact data is unavailable, but estimates suggest that more than 150 bodies, of the estimated 300 climbers who have died on Mount Everest, remain on the mountain, many deep in snow. It can easily cost up to US$100,000 to retrieve a body, depending on factors including altitude and the number of Sherpas required. A 2017 recovery cost US$200,000.
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The death is the third to be reported on Nepal Himalayas during the current climbing season, which started in March and is due to close at the end of May
Narayanan Iyer, 52, died on Mount Kanchenjunga at around 8,200 metres above sea level while trying to reach the 8,586-metre peak



Narayanan Iyer died at around 8,200 metres above sea level; his death is the third to be reported on Nepal Himalayas during the current climbing season, which started in March and is due to close at the end of May.


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