Four bodies have been recovered and six more spotted, and 27 people are missing after a team from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) was hit by an avalanche at the Draupadi Ka Danda-2 peak in Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand on Tuesday. The team was part of the institute’s advance training course.
Director General of Police (DGP), Uttarakhand, Ashok Kumar, told The Hindu that an avalanche had struck at an altitude of around 17,000 feet at 8.45 a.m. on Tuesday, when a team of 54 trainee mountaineers and seven instructors from the Uttarkashi-based NIM was returning after summiting.
Among those dead are Savita Kanswal, 27, the resident of a small village in Uttarkashi. Ms. Kanswal belonged to an economically weaker family and had scaled Mount Everest, creating a national record of 10 expeditions in June this year.
