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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 ...
Avalanche strikes road near a mountain pass situated on Indo-China border
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...