Foreign climbers go missing on way to Nanda Devi peak
The district administration sprang into action after people at the base camp informed the authorities late on Friday night about the team going missing en route to the peak.
An eight-member team of mountaineers, including seven foreign nationals, has gone missing on its way to Nanda Devi East peak in Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand.
The district administration has sent a rescue team in search of them after they failed to return to the base camp. (Wikimedia commons)
The team, which includes seven mountaineers from the UK, US and Australia besides a liaison officer from the Indian Institute of Mountaineering, left Munsiyari on May 13 to scale the 7434-metre peak and was scheduled to return to the base camp on Friday.
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The district administration has sent a rescue team in search of them after they failed to return to the base camp.
The district administration sprang into action after people at the base camp informed the authorities late on Friday night about the team going missing en route to the peak.
The route to the peak begins from Munsiyari, about 132 km from the district headquarters. From Munsiyari to the Nanda Devi base camp, mountaineers have to traverse a distance of about 90 km on foot.
The rescue team comprising State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), police and medical personnel has been sent to the Nanda Devi base camp in search of the climbers, Munsiyari sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) R C Gautam said.
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The team was scheduled to reach the Nanda Devi base camp on Friday and Munsiyari on June 1, he said.
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The team was scheduled to reach the Nanda Devi base camp on Friday and Munsiyari on June 1, he said.
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The SDM said the rescue team will reach the base camp late Saturday night and start rescue operation with the help of expedition team members at the base camp.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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