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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 ...
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 ...
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 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]
BEIJING (Reuters) -Some tourists stranded for several days after avalanches hit highways leading to a popular winter tourism area in China's northwest region of Xinjiang were lifted by helicopter ...
It was caused by a large rock and ice avalanche consisting of material dislodged from Ronti peak. [4] [5] It caused flooding in the Chamoli district, most notably in the Rishiganga river, the Dhauliganga river, and in turn the Alaknanda—the major headstream of the Ganges (Maps 2 and 3). [6] [7] The disaster left over 200 killed or missing.