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On 4 October 2022, an avalanche at the Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand, India killed 27 mountaineers in the Advanced Mountaineering Course of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. [1] The death toll makes this the worst mountaineering disaster recorded in India. [2] 24 of the bodies were of trainee mountaineers and 2 were of their ...
Lance Naik Hanumanthappa Koppad, a 32-year-old Indian soldier with the 19th battalion of the Madras Regiment of the Indian Army, survived the massive avalanche and was found on 8 February during post-disaster avalanche rescue operations by the Indian Army, six days after the disaster. He was rescued from 35 feet beneath the snow in −45 °C ...
Granduc Mine Avalanche [15] Canada: 1965: 2023 Nyingchi avalanche: China: 2023: 39 27: 2022 Uttarakhand avalanche: India: 2022: 40 24: Seyðisfjörður: Iceland: 1885: 2017 Gurez sector avalanche: India: 2017: 42 23: Bâlea Lake; deadliest avalanche in Romania: Romania: April 1977: 43 22: 2015 Mount Everest avalanches; triggered by the April ...
Avalanche strikes road near a mountain pass situated on Indo-China border
The video footage is violent and unsettling. On Sunday, a torrent of ice, water, mud, and debris surged through a steep river valley in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. At least 32 people ...
At least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in three avalanches in 2017, and in 2012, a massive avalanche in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir killed 140 people, including 129 Pakistani soldiers. Show ...
The rise in land surface temperature will be more pronounced in the northern part of India. A recent study reports that summers could last up to 8 months in the Gangetic plain by 2070 if the global temperature increases beyond 2 °C. [31] Increasingly severe and frequent Heat waves may substantially increase mortality and death incidences. [32]
India also installed the world's highest telephone booth on the glacier. [67] According to some estimates, 97% of the casualties in Siachen have been due to weather and altitude, rather than actual fighting. [68] [page needed] In 2012, an avalanche hit Pakistan's Gayari military base, killing 129 soldiers and 11 civilians. [69] [70]