Heartfelt Tribute
Friends, today I am going to tell you the incident that happened in mountaineering which is a matter of great sadness for all those who like mountaineering and for all of us.
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There was an avalanche in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi, due to which many lives are still buried in the snow. More than 80 hours have passed since this incident, but the work of evacuating the buried lives has not been completed yet. In this accident, the dead bodies of 19 people have been removed so far, this figure is till Friday morning. Still 10 more people are feared trapped on it. this accident happened on Tuesday.
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56 people were trapped in this accident on the summit of Draupadi's danda-2 mountain, out of which the dead body of 19 people has been removed, the Sikhar of this mountain is at a height of 17000 feet.
On 04 October 2022, SDRF Uttarakhand was informed by DCR Uttarkashi that an avalanche has occurred in Dokrani Glacier in Uttarkashi. In which 47 trainees undergoing training at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) in Uttarkashi are stranded there. agencies told
In view of this information, taking action on the spot, the rescue team reached the spot with the help of a helicopter, carrying all the equipment used in its necessary rescue.
In this rescue operation conducted on October 4, only 8 people were evacuated because the rescue operation had to be stopped due to very bad weather and again in this rescue operation on October 5, 15 more people were rescued whose condition deteriorated. Due to which he was admitted to the hospital via helicopter.
The words of this avalanche eyewitness
Naib Subedar Anil Kumar was leading the expedition of this mountaineering. He was also buried in the avalanche. He has just been rescued by the rescue team and admitted to the hospital. He told the press media, "We were 42 climbers in the team, of which 34 were climber trainees. I was leading the team. So I was leading the way. Instructor Savanta Kanswal and Naumi Rawat were behind me. While all the other climbers were behind us. Were coming back... Suddenly there was a big snow storm... Within seconds everything was covered in a blanket of snow. ...Because I was ahead of the other people. As soon as the avalanche started I Hanging on the left side of a crack, when the snow slowly stopped slipping and I felt that I could get through the crack, I opened my own ropes and started saving other members of my team. Others who could also get through the snow Started trying to get them out.
Since we did not have enough tools to clear the snow, due to which we were able to remove the snow very hard and it took us about 2 hours to clear the snow. After removing the snow, we pulled out what we could see, yet the rest of our 29 team members were trapped in the snow which we could not see."
God bless the souls of all those who died in this avalanche and give strength to their families to bear this tragedy.