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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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]
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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 Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) wrote in a report that the 57-year-old was likely buried for more than four hours before he was found. The avalanche was 800 feet wide and traveled ...