Avalanche in uttarkashi

10 killed, eight of 29 mountaineering trainees rescued as avalanche hits Uttarakhand’s Draupadi Ka Danda-2 peak The Indian Air Force has deployed two Cheetah helicopters for rescue and relief operations in Uttarkashi area after a Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) mountaineering team was hit by an avalanche Uttarkashi: At least 10 mountaineers from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering have died after an avalanche hit Draupadi Ka Danda – 2 peak in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi on Tuesday. Eight of the 29 trapped mountaineers have been rescued, while efforts are underway to bring the rest to safety. Nehru Institute of Mountaineering Principal Amit Bisht said, “10 killed in avalanche in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district.” Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami requests Army to speed up rescue operation Uttarakhand CM Dhami orders police to take 'stern action' against love jihad after rise in cases BJP fulfils promises, we abolished Article 370, grand Ram temple is now being built: Rajnath Singh Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami requested assistance from the Army to speed up rescue efforts. “Information about 28 trainees of Nehru Mountaineering Institute being trapped following an avalanche in Draupadi’s Danda-2 mountain peak has been received. Rapid, relief and rescue operations underway by the district administration, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel,” CM Dhami said i...

An avalanche at Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district trapped 29 mountaineers from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering on Tuesday, with a rescue operation already underway to bring them to safety, officials said. Eight mountaineers were rescued by their team members and efforts are on to bring the rest to safety, Uttarkashi Disaster Management Officer Devendra Patwal said. ADVERTISEMENT Also Read: North Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation The team consisted of trainee mountaineers from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) and their trainers, he said. Draupadi Ka Danda is located at a height of 5,006 metres. The National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and a team of mountaineers from the NIM have launched rescue operations, Dhami said in a tweet. Dhami has also spoken to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and sought the help of the Army in expediting the rescue operations. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever.

IMAGE: Army personnel move towards the avalanche site to carry out rescue operations, in Uttarkashi district. Photograph: Courtesy @suryacommand/Twitter Two Cheetah helicopters took off from the Army helipad in Harsil to join the search operations, officials said. The avalanche occurred at a height of 17,000 feet on Tuesday when a team of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak. While 24 of these bodies are of trainee mountaineers, two are of their instructors, it said. According to the NIM, three trainees are still missing. Fifteen bodies were recovered on Thursday, the NIM said. Four of the bodies that were being brought to Matli were taken to the Harsil helipad due to bad weather. From there, they were sent to Uttarkashi in ambulances, District Magistrate (DM) Abhishek Ruhella said. Not all the bodies have been identified yet. The relatives of the deceased who have been identified have been informed, he said. Inclement weather hampered aerial search efforts but they continued uninterrupted on the ground, the DM said. A heavy rain alert was issued by the meteorological department for several hill districts in Uttarakhand including Uttarkashi where schools were closed on Friday and disaster management teams were put on alert. NIM instructor Nayab Subedar Anil Kumar, who survived the tragedy, told PTI on Thursday that 33 climbers took shelter in a crevasse during the avalanche. Four bodies were pulled out of the c...

Update: As many as four mountaineers have been killed in an avalanche at Mount Draupadi Ka Danda- II peak in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district on Tuesday, informed the sources. A team of 34 trainee mountaineers and seven instructors from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was caught in an avalanche while returning, said NIM Principal Colonel Amit Bisht said. The bodies of deceased mountaineers have been recovered, he added. Taking stock of the avalanche in Uttarkashi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressed his grief and called the incident "Unfortunate". He tweeted, "I have spoken to the officials in this regard. Local administration, SDRF, NDRF, ITBP, and Army teams are engaged in relief and rescue operations with full readiness" At least 28 trainees of Nehru Mountaineering Institute are feared to be trapped after an avalanche struck Uttarakhand's Danda-2 mountain peak on Tuesday. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami informed that IAF, NDRF, SDRF, Army & ITBP teams have been deployed for rapid relief and rescue operations to save the mountaineers. READ | While the SDRF teams have left from Sahastradhara helipad in Dehradun to rescue the trainees trapped in an avalanche in Uttarkashi, Indian Air Force have deployed two Cheetah helicopters in relief operations. 'All other fleets of choppers have been put on standby for any other requirement,' IAF officials said. द्रौपदी का डांडा-2 पर्वत चोटी में हिमस्खलन में फंसे प्रशिक्षार्थियों को जल्द से जल्द सकुशल बाहर निकालने क...

Rohit Bhatt was among the mountaineers who were struck by the massive avalanche on mount Draupadi ka Danda-II in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi on Tuesday morning. Now recuperating at the district hospital in Uttarkashi, he spoke to Asianet Newsable's Anish Singh about the ordeal that he and 40 other mountaineers endured. "If we had got even 10 seconds of time, we could have saved more lives..." said Rohit Bhatt, one of those who survived the massive avalanche that hit mount Draupadi ka Danda-II in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi on Tuesday morning. Today recuperating at the district hospital in Uttarkashi, Rohit spoke to Asianet Newsable over the phone and narrated the ordeal that he, along with 40 others, endured when the avalanche struck. Rohit, who hails from Uttarakhand, is one of the trainees undergoing the Advance Mountaineering Course at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. "We embarked on our summit at 3-3:30 am on Tuesday. We were 34 trainees and seven instructors. The avalanche hit us when we had reached 5,500 meters, which was just 100-150 meters away from the final destination at 8-8:30 am," Rohit said. Image: Photograph from the day the avalanche struck mount Draupadi ka Danda-II "The avalanche was so massive that we did not even get any time to think of anything. Within minutes everything turned white due to snow. Many of our fellow trainees and instructors got entrapped in the debris," he said. The mountaineers did not even get two seconds to react. Two trainees and s...

The avalanche occurred at a height of 17,000 feet on Tuesday when a team of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak. Three more bodies were recovered from the avalanche site late on Thursday evening and seven were found on Friday, taking the total number of bodies retrieved so far to 26, the NIM said. While 24 of these bodies are of trainee mountaineers, two are of their instructors, it said. According to the NIM, three trainees are still missing. Fifteen bodies were recovered on Thursday, the NIM said. Four of the bodies that were being brought to Matli were taken to the Harsil helipad due to bad weather. From there, they were sent to Uttarkashi in ambulances, District Magistrate (DM) Abhishek Ruhella said. Not all the bodies have been identified yet. The relatives of the deceased who have been identified have been informed, he said. Inclement weather hampered aerial search efforts but they continued uninterrupted on the ground, the DM said. A heavy rain alert was issued by the meteorological department for several hill districts in Uttarakhand including Uttarkashi where schools were closed on Friday and disaster management teams were put on alert. NIM instructor Nayab Subedar Anil Kumar, who survived the tragedy, told PTI on Thursday that 33 climbers took shelter in a crevasse during the avalanche. Four bodies were pulled out of the crevasse on the day of the avalanche while 29 were still stuck, Kumar had said. ...

DEHRADUN/UTTARKASHI: A 2.5 magnitude earthquake jolted Uttarkashi district on October 2, just two days before the deadly avalanche hit the group of trainees from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) at Draupadi ka Danda. Sixteen bodies were recovered till Thursday afternoon while fifteen persons are still reported missing. Experienced mountaineers and locals are now saying that the quake, which had its epicentre not far away from the disaster site, might have triggered the avalanche on October 4 morning. According to National Centre of Seismology, the quake occurred at around 10:43 am on October 2 with its epicentre near Nald village in Bhatwari tehsil of Uttarkashi district. Significantly, the 25-km trek to Mount Draupadi ka Dana, which starts from Bhukki village, also lies in Bhatwari tehsil. "Sometimes, even small tremors can cause cracks in the glaciers and the upper layer of snow could dislodge immediately after a small amount of pressure is exerted on it. In the past, we have seen earthquake-triggered-avalanches like the 2015 avalanche around the Mt Everest base camp," said Love Raj Dharmshaktu, who has scaled Everest seven times. The south-east part of Uttarkashi district, including Bhatwari, falls under either zone IV or zone V of the seismic zone map. Senior geologist and executive director of He added: "A detailed investigation is needed to ascertain whether the October 2 quake, which was of low intensity, triggered the avalanche on October 4." Jayendra Rana, ...

THE DEATH toll in the avalanche in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand climbed to 10 on Wednesday, as six more bodies were sighted but are yet to be recovered. Four bodies were recovered on Tuesday. A “As of now, we have 25 people missing, of which six bodies have been located but are yet to be recovered. Four bodies have been recovered. Once we recover the six bodies, we will still have 19 people missing. The relief and rescue operation is over for the day, and it will resume on Thursday morning,” said State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) Inspector General Ridhim Aggarwal. The multi-agency rescue teams have rescued 26 people so far – 12 who were part of the NIM team, and another 14 who were at the base camp. The NIM team included 34 trainees and seven instructors. The NIM said the avalanche struck at around 8.45 am on Tuesday, when the team was returning after scaling the peak as part of the advanced mountaineering course. Also Read | According to a PTI report, the missing are said to be stuck in the crevasse in Dokriani Bamak glacier where the avalanche struck. The trainees hail from West Bengal, The bodies recovered include that of mountaineer Savita Kanswal who had climbed Mount Everest in May this year, said PTI. “In order to reduce the time taken by teams to reach the site, we have set up a base camp at a height of 15,000 feet, about 1,000 feet below the site of the incident. A temporary helipad has also been set up closer to the site of the incident. A team from the ...

An avalanche at Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district trapped 29 mountaineers from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering on Tuesday, with a rescue operation already underway to bring them to safety, officials said. Eight mountaineers were rescued by their team members and efforts are on to bring the rest to safety, Uttarkashi Disaster Management Officer Devendra Patwal said. ADVERTISEMENT Also Read: North Korea sends missile soaring over Japan in escalation The team consisted of trainee mountaineers from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) and their trainers, he said. Draupadi Ka Danda is located at a height of 5,006 metres. The National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and a team of mountaineers from the NIM have launched rescue operations, Dhami said in a tweet. Dhami has also spoken to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and sought the help of the Army in expediting the rescue operations. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever.

The avalanche occurred at a height of 17,000 feet on Tuesday when a team of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak. Three more bodies were recovered from the avalanche site late on Thursday evening and seven were found on Friday, taking the total number of bodies retrieved so far to 26, the NIM said. While 24 of these bodies are of trainee mountaineers, two are of their instructors, it said. According to the NIM, three trainees are still missing. Fifteen bodies were recovered on Thursday, the NIM said. Four of the bodies that were being brought to Matli were taken to the Harsil helipad due to bad weather. From there, they were sent to Uttarkashi in ambulances, District Magistrate (DM) Abhishek Ruhella said. Not all the bodies have been identified yet. The relatives of the deceased who have been identified have been informed, he said. Inclement weather hampered aerial search efforts but they continued uninterrupted on the ground, the DM said. A heavy rain alert was issued by the meteorological department for several hill districts in Uttarakhand including Uttarkashi where schools were closed on Friday and disaster management teams were put on alert. NIM instructor Nayab Subedar Anil Kumar, who survived the tragedy, told PTI on Thursday that 33 climbers took shelter in a crevasse during the avalanche. Four bodies were pulled out of the crevasse on the day of the avalanche while 29 were still stuck, Kumar had said. ...