According to the Indian police’s most recent death toll, an avalanche struck a group of mountaineers in the Himalayas, killing at least 10 people and leaving another 18 people missing.
According to AFP, this group consists of 34 pupils from the nearby Nehru Mountaineering Institute as well as 7 coaches and a nurse.
As a result of the avalanche that occurred near the summit of Drupadi Ka Danda 2 mountain at a height of 4,880 metres in the northern state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday, 4 of them were officially declared dead.
According to the French agency, the search activities began again on Wednesday after being suspended on Tuesday night due to inclement weather.
The Uttarakhand state police announced on Twitter that “Rescue teams have found 10 bodies,” adding that 14 persons had been saved, including 5 who were seeking medical attention in a hospital in the nearby district of Uttarkashi.
Police video captured some survivors making their way to the scene while being escorted by two officers.
A member of the coaching staff and experienced mountaineer Savita Kanswal’s death was announced by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Damy through Twitter.
It is significant that Kanswal achieved a mountaineering record this year by climbing both Mount Everest and the adjacent Mount McCullough in just 16 days.
Devendra Singh Patwal, a representative of disaster management, told AFP that two air force helicopters had been sent to help search the avalanche scene.
Climbers were trapped in an ice cleft following the avalanche, according to Redim Agrawal, a spokesman for the national agency in charge of disaster management, who spoke to AFP.
In Himachal Pradesh, another state in northern India, a mountaineer’s body was discovered two months after he plunged into an ice crevasse while attempting to cross a glacier.
Additionally, two days after American mountaineer Hilary Nelson vanished from the Nepalese slopes of Mount Manaslu, her body was discovered in the Himalayas last week.
In addition, Nelson lost control of her skis as she descended the eighth-highest mountain in the world with her companion Jim Morrison.
According to the state tourism office, an avalanche between Camps 3 and 4 in Manaslu happened on the day she vanished, killing a Nepalese climber and injuring hundreds of others.
Climbers reported that the glacier fractures expanded and the water areas increased in locations that were previously covered in snow, in addition to the growth in the number of glacial lakes, despite the lack of necessary studies to determine the influence of climate change on the Himalayas.
India: Avalanche in the Himalayas leaves 10 dead and 18 missing
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