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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 ...
Video shows tourists being rescued after falling into India's Sela Lake. ... Avalanche kills 36-year-old skier, ... Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at tardrey ...
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 ...
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On 29 May 2024, nineteen members of the Karnataka Mountaineering Association from Bengaluru in the southern Indian state of Karnataka began a 35-kilometer long high-altitude trek with three local guides in the remote Sahasra Tal area across the Himalayas. [2]
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]
India's western coast, bordering the more placid Arabian Sea, experiences cyclones only rarely; these mainly strike Gujarat and, less frequently, Kerala and sometimes Odisha. In terms of damage and loss of life, the 1999 Odisha cyclone, a super cyclone that struck Odisha on 29 October 1999, was the worst in more than a quarter-century.
The 2021 Uttarakhand flood, also known as the Chamoli disaster, [1] began on 7 February 2021 in the environs of the Nanda Devi National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site [2] in the outer Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand state, India (Maps 1 and 2). [3] It was caused by a large rock and ice avalanche consisting of material dislodged from Ronti ...