A 52-year-old Indian climber died while ascending the peak of Mt Kanchenjunga in Nepal, according to the organiser of the expedition, PTI reports. 

Narayanan Iyer, a resident of Maharashtra, died on Thursday at 8,200 meters altitude of the world’s third-highest mountain peak lying at the India-Nepal border, Nivesh Karki, executive director of the Pioneer Adventure, the organizer of the expedition, told PTI. 

According to the preliminary report, the Indian climber died due to high altitude sickness, some 386 metres below the 8,586-metre high peak. The climber refused to descend when the organisers “asked him to descend when he fell sick” while scaling the mountain, which led to his death, Karki told PTI.