Kolkata: A 43-year-old Bengali mountaineer, Rajib
Bhattacharya, was reported dead while he was touring down to the plains from
Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal. Bhattacharya’s expedition team has confirmed the
news on late at Friday.
Bhattacharya, who was a resident of Baranagar, the
northern fringe of the city, is an experienced climber and also had scaled
Mount Everest in May 2011with teammate Dipankar Ghosh. Reports from the Nepal’s
Seven Summit Treks depicted that Rajib had developed snow blindness and a heart
attack due to lack of oxygen at an altitude of 7600 meters on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government said that a
three-member team will reach the area and bring back the body that is still lying
attached to a rock under a terrain. The three member team will include fellow
mountaineer Dipankar Ghosh, Devdas Nandi from West Bengal Mountaineering
Federation and a relative of Rajib, Prabir Bhattacharya. “The temperature is
frigid and the terrain is difficult. It will be a tough task,” said Manab
Lahiri, vice-president of Serampore’s Angan Chariye.
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