Nine Bodies Retrieved, 29 still trapped in Uttarkashi Avalanche: Nehru Institute of Mountaineering
New Delhi: On Thursday, October 06, 2022, the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) said that a total of nine bodies were recovered and retrieved so far, whereas 29 trainees remain stranded in the Uttarkashi avalanche.
The nine recovered bodies also include four dead bodies that were already retrieved on Tuesday, October 04 and Wednesday, October 05, 2022.
The update on recovered bodies came hours after a team of experts from High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS), Jammu and Kashmir, joined the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), and NIM in an operation to rescue stranded mountaineers on Draupadi’s Danda-II mountain peak in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi.
The mountaineers were stranded after an avalanche hit them on Tuesday, October 04, 2022.
However, more teams have been sent to the advance base camp from ITBP Matli in Uttarkashi and an advanced helicopter landing ground was prepared at 16000 feet.
“The dead bodies are present at the base and some of them are expected to be brought down today itself,” ITBP PRO Vivek Pandey said.
“The measures are being hampered due to bad weather conditions but efforts to find missing mountaineers is still underway,” he added.
On Tuesday, about 41 trainees and instructors of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) were in the grip of Draupadi’s avalanche in Danda of Dokrani glacier, at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters.
Keeping the safety of the trekking and mountaineering teams in mind, the District magistrate of Uttarkashi, Abhishek Ruhela, banned trekking activities for the next three days starting Thursday, October 06, 2022.
Ruhela has banned these activities in Uttarkashi from October 6 (today) to October 8 (Saturday) ahead of the intense rainfall alert by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The IMD had predicted heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand over the upcoming days.
(Avya Mathur)
