BHOPAL: A 52-year-old teacher from Nagpur died on Friday after falling nearly 150 feet into a gorge at Priyadarshini View Point in Pachmarhi , Narmadapuram district, Madhya Pradesh .




He had climbed over the safety railing to retrieve a bag snatched by a monkey.




The deceased, Vijay Nayak, was visiting the hill station on a school trip with a group of 20 schoolchildren and several other teachers.




His father was also travelling with the group.




According to an accompanying teacher, the group reached the viewpoint at around 6.45 am, when a monkey snatched a bag. Nayak crossed the railing to get it back, lost his balance and plunged into the gorge.




Police and local residents immediately launched a rescue operation.




The team had to trek nearly 3 km through difficult terrain to reach the spot. After about three and a half hours, the body was brought up on a stretcher at around 9.30 am.




The body was sent to a government hospital for postmortem and then handed over to the family, who left for Nagpur.