BIRATNAGAR, May 7: Kuga Takahiro, 42, a Japanese national died of altitude sickness in Solukhumbu on Sunday. 

Takahiro, who suffered from altitude sickness at Labuche Base camp at Khumbu Pasanglhamu-4, died on the way to Lukla-based Nicole Niquille Hospital. 

He arrived here on April 27 to scale Mt Everest. (RSS)
 

 
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