Prague Mayor Pavel Bem, who was restricted from climbing Mount Everest from the Chinese side last week, will scale the world's highest peak from the Nepali side.

A news report published by the Prague Daily Monitor said Chinese security personnel had not allowed Bem to enter Tibet although "he had valid visas and the permit to climb the peak" from the northern route.

Bem's spokeswoman, Martina Jirocova, said in the report that the expedition would not be delayed after the refusal as the climb from the south does not take much time.

"The expedition has secured the relevant permit from the Nepali authorities. At present, it is being transferred to the base camp in Nepal," the report quoted Jirocova as saying.

She also said that all the members of the team would reach the site on April 16.

The news report also quoted another team leader from the Netherlands who said that Bem's group was evidently blacklisted and it had to return to Kathmandu.