A foreign national has died after falling from Sibuche Bhir located in Mapya Dudhkoshi rural municipality ward number-7 of Solukhumbu.

Local Tech Hadur Rai informed that 64-year-old Belgian Andre Declier died after slipping on Thursday morning. 

According to Gaurav Rai, Vice President of Mapyadudhkashi Rural Municipality, Declier came to climb the Merapeak mountain. Rai says that the rescue helicopter could not come immediately due to bad weather.