Two Indian air force helicopters conducted reconnaissance missions around the Na...
MUMBAI - Two Indian air force helicopters conducted reconnaissance missions around the Nanda Devi mountain in the Himalayas for eight missing climbers without success on Sunday and survivors are unlikely to be found, two state government officials said.
The second aerial mission concluded after tracing the climbers “last-known location and footmarks” on the other side of the Nanda Devi East Peak, said Vijay Kumar Jogdande, the top civil servant in the Pithoragarh district of India’s rugged state of Uttarakhand.“Chances of survival are bleak,” said Jogdande and confirmed there had been an avalanche that is feared to have caught the climbers in the area around India’s second-highest peak.
“The route is extremely dangerous and risky. There have been multiple avalanches on the route,” Jogdande said. He added that the weather conditions were difficult and the terrain too risky and vast for the on-foot team to look for the climbers without a very specific idea of where they were.The climbers went missing on the Indian side of the Himalayas near the end of a climbing season that has been particularly deadly.
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