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The Times of India
The Times of India
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Vishant Agarwala

Everest veterans, mountain guides enter choked hydropower tunnel to rescue 6

TRISHULI BAZAAR (NUWAKOT, NEPAL): Everest veterans and some of Nepal's most highly trained mountain guides joined rescue operations in flood-ravaged Rasuwa, with a specialist team entering a mud-choked hydropower tunnel Saturday and pushing around 120m inside before thick sludge and debris blocked further movement. The deployment brought skills normally used on Himalayan expeditions - rope fixing, cliff access, helicopter longline operations and movement through unstable terrain - into parts of the disaster zone where roads had disappeared and conventional rescue methods were proving difficult.

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