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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 ...
Avalanche strikes road near a mountain pass situated on Indo-China border
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 ...
Winter of Terror; series of 649 avalanches: Austria-Switzerland-Italy: 1951: 6 201 (56 confirmed, 145 presumed dead) 2012 Afghanistan avalanches [3] Afghanistan: 2012: 7 200: Lahaul Valley avalanche [4] India: 1979: 8 172: 2010 Salang avalanches; series of at least 36 avalanches: Afghanistan: 2010: 9 155: 1918 Mitsumata village avalanche [5 ...
A Russian skier was killed and five others were rescued, along with their local guide, after an avalanche hit a popular Himalayan ski resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, officials said.
The summers have already become more intense in India with some regions regularly reporting temperatures around 47 °C. [29] In the last four years, India has seen as many as over 4,620 deaths caused by heat waves, according to data published by the Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India. [30]
Donald Moden Jr., 57, was buried by an avalanche in Ouray County, Colorado on Jan. 7. He was likely buried in snow for four hours before he was found dead, according to the California Avalanche ...