Uttarkashi avalanche

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday said that 19 bodies have been recovered till now in the Uttarkashi avalanche case. “Till now, 19 bodies have been recovered. Rescue operation is underway by teams of NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, Indian Army, and district administration. I am also monitoring the rescue operation,” Dhami was quoted saying by news agency ANI. On Tuesday, the avalanche occurred at a height of 17,000 feet when a team of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak. The mountaineers were part of a team selected by the NIM for an advanced training course. The team consisting of 41 people, included 34 trainees and seven instructors, The Indian Express reported. The missing are reportedly stuck in the crevasse in Dokraini Bamak glacier where the avalanche struck. Breaking News on June 15 Meanwhile, four more bodies of trainee mountaineers were brought back on Friday morning and were taken for post-mortem. The families of the deceased have also been informed, Chatar Singh, sub-divisional magistrate Bhatwadi, said, ANI reported. Earlier, rescue operations were delayed for Draupadi’s Danda-2 peak due to bad weather. A total of 19 bodies were recovered from the site of an avalanche that hit a team of climbers in Uttarkashi, Uttarkhand Deputy General of Police (DGP) Ashok Kumar said on Friday. A total of 30 rescue teams have been deployed, he added. While 17 of these bodies are of trainee mountaineers, two are of ...

UTTARKASHI: As rescue operations resumed at Mount Draupadi ka Danda on Monday for the Nehru Institute Of Mountaineering (NIM) group hit by an avalanche on October 4, five more bodies were brought back to Uttarkashi town from the disaster-hit site. The bodies, brought back via Indian Air Force choppers, were identified as Vamsheedar Reddy of Hyderabad, Rajat Singhal of Gurugram , Sandip Sarkar of Kolkata, SGT Amit Kumar Singh of Gonda (UP) and Santosh Kukreti of Haridwar. Uttarkashi: First pics of avalanche site show spot where mountaineers fell For the first time since the deadly avalanche on Mount Draupadi ka Danda, which claimed 26 lives and has left three still missing, photographs taken from choppers have been released, revealing the exact spot where the disaster took place and the crevasse in which the climbers fell. Uttarkashi avalanche: Did mild earthquake 2 days ago trigger movement of snow? 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. Till date, bodies of 27 mountaineers, who were trapped in the crevasse, have been recovered.

The discovery of five more bodies on Monday takes the number of bodies brought down from the summit camp so far to 26, Uttarkashi District Magistrate Abhishek Ruhela said. "One body is still at the summit camp while search for the two missing mountaineers continues," he said. Twenty-nine climbers, including 27 trainees and two instructors, who were part of an advanced mountaineering course at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering had gone missing after they were struck by a massive avalanche at an altitude of 17,000 feet on their way back from Draupadi ka Danda-II peak on October 4. A multi-agency search-and-rescue operation by the SDRF, ITBP, Army and IAF was launched on the same day, which still continues. "Continuous snowfall over the avalanche-hit site is hampering search operations. But efforts to find the two missing mountaineers continue despite bad weather. We hope the operation will soon be over," the DM said. Also Read:

Dehradun, Oct 8 (PTI) The recent avalanche near Draupadi Ka Danda-II peak that killed at least 26 mountaineers in Uttarkashi district has triggered a debate among scientists and experts about the contributing factors. While there is no unanimous view on the possible reasons, most of them feel attributing the avalanche to a mild earthquake that rocked Uttarkashi two days earlier was incorrect. The tremor, measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale, hit Uttarkashi on October 2. It was too mild and its epicentre too far from the avalanche site, said a scientist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here. “The mild-intensity earthquake occurred two days before the avalanche and its epicentre was in a village whose aerial distance from the peak is around 25 km,” Manish Mehta, a scientist at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here said. “So it is least likely that the avalanche was caused by the earthquake.” One expert attributed the avalanche to higher snowfall in the region. Snowfall in the upper Himalayan region has been more frequent this time and, due to fluctuation of temperature, fresh snow accumulated on the slopes may be sliding down in the form of avalanches before it can settle. As many as three avalanches hit the neighbouring Kedarnath valley over 11 days since September 22. Of the three, the latest avalanche occurred just 5 km away from Kedarnath temple at Chorabari glacier on October 1. But no one was harmed in these avalanches. “Fresh snow avalanches can be caused...

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Friday said that 19 bodies have been recovered till now in the Uttarkashi avalanche case. “Till now, 19 bodies have been recovered. Rescue operation is underway by teams of NDRF, SDRF, ITBP, Indian Army, and district administration. I am also monitoring the rescue operation,” Dhami was quoted saying by news agency ANI. On Tuesday, the avalanche occurred at a height of 17,000 feet when a team of Nehru Institute of Mountaineering was returning after summiting Draupadi Ka Danda II peak. The mountaineers were part of a team selected by the NIM for an advanced training course. The team consisting of 41 people, included 34 trainees and seven instructors, The Indian Express reported. The missing are reportedly stuck in the crevasse in Dokraini Bamak glacier where the avalanche struck. Breaking News on June 15 Meanwhile, four more bodies of trainee mountaineers were brought back on Friday morning and were taken for post-mortem. The families of the deceased have also been informed, Chatar Singh, sub-divisional magistrate Bhatwadi, said, ANI reported. Earlier, rescue operations were delayed for Draupadi’s Danda-2 peak due to bad weather. A total of 19 bodies were recovered from the site of an avalanche that hit a team of climbers in Uttarkashi, Uttarkhand Deputy General of Police (DGP) Ashok Kumar said on Friday. A total of 30 rescue teams have been deployed, he added. While 17 of these bodies are of trainee mountaineers, two are of ...

The discovery of five more bodies on Monday takes the number of bodies brought down from the summit camp so far to 26, Uttarkashi District Magistrate Abhishek Ruhela said. "One body is still at the summit camp while search for the two missing mountaineers continues," he said. Twenty-nine climbers, including 27 trainees and two instructors, who were part of an advanced mountaineering course at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering had gone missing after they were struck by a massive avalanche at an altitude of 17,000 feet on their way back from Draupadi ka Danda-II peak on October 4. A multi-agency search-and-rescue operation by the SDRF, ITBP, Army and IAF was launched on the same day, which still continues. "Continuous snowfall over the avalanche-hit site is hampering search operations. But efforts to find the two missing mountaineers continue despite bad weather. We hope the operation will soon be over," the DM said. Also Read:

UTTARKASHI: As rescue operations resumed at Mount Draupadi ka Danda on Monday for the Nehru Institute Of Mountaineering (NIM) group hit by an avalanche on October 4, five more bodies were brought back to Uttarkashi town from the disaster-hit site. The bodies, brought back via Indian Air Force choppers, were identified as Vamsheedar Reddy of Hyderabad, Rajat Singhal of Gurugram , Sandip Sarkar of Kolkata, SGT Amit Kumar Singh of Gonda (UP) and Santosh Kukreti of Haridwar. Uttarkashi: First pics of avalanche site show spot where mountaineers fell For the first time since the deadly avalanche on Mount Draupadi ka Danda, which claimed 26 lives and has left three still missing, photographs taken from choppers have been released, revealing the exact spot where the disaster took place and the crevasse in which the climbers fell. Uttarkashi avalanche: Did mild earthquake 2 days ago trigger movement of snow? 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. Till date, bodies of 27 mountaineers, who were trapped in the crevasse, have been recovered.

Dehradun, Oct 8 (PTI) The recent avalanche near Draupadi Ka Danda-II peak that killed at least 26 mountaineers in Uttarkashi district has triggered a debate among scientists and experts about the contributing factors. While there is no unanimous view on the possible reasons, most of them feel attributing the avalanche to a mild earthquake that rocked Uttarkashi two days earlier was incorrect. The tremor, measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale, hit Uttarkashi on October 2. It was too mild and its epicentre too far from the avalanche site, said a scientist at Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here. “The mild-intensity earthquake occurred two days before the avalanche and its epicentre was in a village whose aerial distance from the peak is around 25 km,” Manish Mehta, a scientist at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology here said. “So it is least likely that the avalanche was caused by the earthquake.” One expert attributed the avalanche to higher snowfall in the region. Snowfall in the upper Himalayan region has been more frequent this time and, due to fluctuation of temperature, fresh snow accumulated on the slopes may be sliding down in the form of avalanches before it can settle. As many as three avalanches hit the neighbouring Kedarnath valley over 11 days since September 22. Of the three, the latest avalanche occurred just 5 km away from Kedarnath temple at Chorabari glacier on October 1. But no one was harmed in these avalanches. “Fresh snow avalanches can be caused...