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[caption id="attachment_14557" align="alignnone" width="580"] rajib bhattacharya inside the tent. Image Source: Xtra Time[/caption] Internet Desk: Indian mountaineer Rajib Bhattacharya died on Thursday afternoon while descending from Mt. Dhaulagiri in Nepal. Bhattacharya, 43, is a resident of Joypurbil in West Bengal’s Howrah district, had climbed Mt Everest in 2011 and Mt Kanchenjunga in 2013. Mt Dhaulagiri, located in western Nepal, is the seventh highest mountain in the world which stands at 8,167 m above the sea level. The expedition organisers suspect that Bhattacharya may have had a heart attack due to lack of oxygen. “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” expedition organiser Mingma Sherpa of Kathmandu-based Seven Summit Treks said. His body is still lying in the camp and due to treacherous terrain, it is going to very difficult to bring it down, he added. Efforts are underway to airlift the body to Kathmandu by helicopter and Inclement weather condition in the area delays the operation, reports says. Earlier yesterday, a Nepalese sherpa guide, accompanying Indian soldiers in their attempt to summit the world's fourth- highest peak Lhotse Face, fell 2000-metres to his death while fixing ropes during the expedition. The two deaths on a single day has cast a shadow over the otherwise successful expedition season in the Himalayan mountains so far. Mount Everest has seen nearly 300 summits this season, after a nearly two-year-long drought season on the world's highest peak following two disasters in 2014 and 2015. A seven-member team of Indian soldiers were also among the people who scaled Mt Everest yesterday. As many as 18 climbers had died after an earthquake- triggered avalanche at a Everest base camp last year. Sixteen Nepali guides had died in 2014 in another avalanche. Mountaineering and trekking expeditions on the Himalayas are a major source of revenue for Nepal, which is struggling to return to normalcy after a devastating earthquake killed over 9,000 people last year.