ITBP Retrieves Bodies of 3 Trekkers Buried in Snow in Himachal's Kannur
3 years, 1 month ago

ITBP Retrieves Bodies of 3 Trekkers Buried in Snow in Himachal's Kannur

News 18  

The bodies of three trekkers, buried in snow at Buran pass in the Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh, were retrieved by ITBP personnel on Thursday. DC Kinnaur Apoorva Devgan said the bodies of three trekkers were buried in Buran pass due to heavy snowfall. “The members of the ITBP rescue team could not reach the peak in Buran pass on Wednesday due to heavy snowfall and hence they were forced to return to the base camp. In another similar incident, two trekkers of an 11-member trekking team who were on the trek from Harshil in Uttarkashi to Lamkhaga pass of Chitkul in Kinnaur district are still missing.

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Uttarakhand trekking accident: Bodies of four more trekkers from Bengaluru recovered
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Uttarakhand trekking accident: Bodies of four more trekkers from Bengaluru recovered

The Hindu  

The 13 survivors from the trekking group from Bengaluru in the Uttarakhand tragedy arrived at Kempegowda International Airport here on Thursday at 8.45 p.m., from Dehradun. Mr. Byre Gowda, who held a meeting with Radha Raturi, Chief Secretary of Uttarakhand, and Ranjit Sinha, Secretary, Disaster Management, Uttarakhand, had initially said that arrangements would be made to transport the bodies to …

Uttarakhand: Bodies of 5 Trekkers from Bengal Retrieved from Sundardhunga Glacier
3 years, 1 month ago

Uttarakhand: Bodies of 5 Trekkers from Bengal Retrieved from Sundardhunga Glacier

News 18  

Bodies of five trekkers from West Bengal, who went missing during an expedition in the Himalayas, were retrieved on Tuesday from the Sundardhunga glacier in Uttarakhand's Bageshwar district. "The 13-member rescue team consisting of NDRF and SDRF personnel on Tuesday reached Devi Kund near the Sundardhunga glacier where five bodies had earlier been spotted and retrieved all of them," Bageshwar …

Kinnaur, Himachal's Snow-clad Valley, Bans All Mountaineering Activities as Bodies of Trekkers Pile Up
3 years, 1 month ago

Kinnaur, Himachal's Snow-clad Valley, Bans All Mountaineering Activities as Bodies of Trekkers Pile Up

News 18  

The administration in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district has banned trekking and mountaineering activities on all treks across the district in the wake of several deaths in the hills after landslides and snowfall wrecked the state last week. On Saturday, bodies of two members of an 11-member trekking team that had gone missing on way to Chitkul via Harsil in Uttarkashi …

Five trekkers found dead in Himachal Pradesh; four still missing, two rescued
3 years, 2 months ago

Five trekkers found dead in Himachal Pradesh; four still missing, two rescued

Firstpost  

The team of trekkers had left Harshil in adjoining Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district for Chitkul in Kinnaur district on 11 October but they went missing from 17 to 19 October in Lamkhaga Pass Shimla: Five of the eleven missing trekkers, who started their expedition in Uttarakhand, were found dead in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district on Thursday, a senior official said. While …

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