The eight member team was reported missing on May 25 but it took the ITBP nearly one month to retrieve seven bodies from the western ridge of the Nanda Devi peak on June 23 after a massive operation often hampered by inclement weather.
Eight mountaineers had set out on an expedition of the 7,434-metre-high peak but were reported missing on May 25, the day they were to reach their base camp. One of them is still missing.
A 10-member team of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) dug out the seven bodies, including that of a woman mountaineer, from under the snow, DIG A P S Nimbadia said.
Since May 25, an eight-member team of mountaineers, including seven foreign nationals, on its way to Nanda Devi East peak in Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand, was reported missing.
The Pithoragarh administration was awaiting instructions from the Centre on Tuesday to take steps to retrieve the bodies of five mountaineers IAF choppers spotted a day earlier near an unscaled peak adjoining the Nanda Devi East, an official said.
A 12-member team went on an expedition to Mount Nanda Devi East in Kumaon, Uttarakhand from May 10 to June 15. Only 4 out of the 12 climbers have returned to the base came while 8 have been missing including 7 foreigners.
New Delhi: Himalayan Kumbh, also known as Nandadevi Raj Jat yatra, which is held every 12 years, began amid religious customs and traditions from Nauti village in Chamoli district.It has a legend, the procession accompanies
New Delhi, Apr 6: In 1965, a CIA team lost a four pound plutonium-powered device at Nanda Devi peak which it was trying to install to spy on China's nuclear tests. That expedition retreated in
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