Planning is under way to place a bat which once belonged to Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes on Mount Everest in a tribute to the batsman who died last month, an official said Friday.

The death of Hughes, 25, from a head blow sustained while playing a domestic match at the Sydney Cricket Ground stunned the sports world and triggered an outpouring of grief. Cricket Australia chairman Wally Edwards said Friday that the Cricket Association of Nepal had proposed the Everest idea.