An Australian climber has fallen to his death while descending a peak near Mount Everest in eastern Nepal.
Newcastle man Michael Geoffrey Davis, 33, died on Ama Dablam on Thursday while part of a group of 15 that was going down the 6812m Himalayan peak.
He plunged to his death after a huge rock fell and damaged ropes he was using to descend the mountain, the Himalayan Times reported. No one else was hurt.
An aerial rescue operation was carried out and Mr Davis's body was airlifted to Kathmandu for a post-mortem, Top Himalaya Guides managing director Tshering Pande Bhote told the newspaper.
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