Tag: Mountaineering Expedition

The 20-member expedition was flagged off at Mumbai on September 3 and 10 climbers had started the final leg of their journey to the summit of Mt Trishul (7,120 m) on Friday morning but were caught in the avalanche.

New Delhi/London: A search is underway for seven climbers — four Britons, two Americans and an Australian — and their Indian liaison officer, who went missing a week ago during an expedition to the Nanda Devi peak in Uttarakhand, CNN reported on Sunday citing local authorities. The group was attempting to scale Nanda Devi East, […]

Shimla: Fifty-one years after an Indian Air Force An-12 transport aircraft crashed in the icy mountains of Himachal Pradesh killing all 102 on board, the Indian Army on Friday announced it would launch another operation to recover the over 90 missing bodies. The aircraft went missing over the Rohtang Pass on its way back to […]