Shimla / Kolkata: Two trekkers from West Bengal have died while 12 others, including four trekkers and bengal porics, stranded in more than 5,000 m glaciers Khamenger high at Pin Valley of Himachal Pradesh due to bad weather.
While air rescue is not possible in this region, search operations and rescue by team 32 members have begun, but can take up to one week.
Reach most of the bad weather in the last few days with thick snow and bad visibility, the team was stranded in the Khamengar glacier – a height of up to 6,000 m.
Airlifting is not possible in a difficult field like that: DCthe Trights ‘Trekkers’ ring is then known on Monday when two members from the group managed to reach Kaza, the sub-division headquarters, and told the officials that their group stranded in the glacier and two trekkers had died .
Deputy Commissioner Lahaul-spiti Neeraj Kumar said the administration had searched for rescue helicopters but airlifting would not be possible because of the difficult terrain.
“The search and rescue team of 32 members, including 16 Jawan from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), six Jawan from Scouts Dogrra and 10 Poriers, has been formed.
The Alsocomprises team is a military doctor.
The team has reached the Valley Spiti pin and will start climbing Who challenged on Tuesday morning, “he said.
The team will start climbing from Ka Village and is expected to camp in Chango Thango on Tuesday.
It’s likely to reach Dhar Thango the next day and Khamengar on Thursday.
The team’s return track will take two more days.
DC said Trekker was a member of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF).
The deceased has been identified as Bhaskar Deb Mukherjee, 61, Barrackpore, Kolkata and Sandeep Kumar Thakurta, 48, Belgharia, West Bengal.
Trekkers were stranded including Debashish Vardhan, 58, Ranadhir Roy, 63, Tapas Kumar Das, 50 and Atul, 42, all residents of West Bengal.
Mukherjee is a retired bank employee.
His brother Goutam Bhattacharya said, “He was addicted to Trekking.
We warned him repeatedly not to go now because he had been diagnosed with lung chaos.
He also suffered a pneumonia just a few months ago.
But he did not pay attention to our warning and joined With the team.
We know that he has acute respiratory problems after climbing and then die.
“The Thakurata family, a new high school teacher and resident of Rifle Range Road near Jatindas Nagar in Belgharia, said they had known his death on Monday morning.
His cousin Subir Kr Roy, said, “He suffered acute respiratory problems due to lack of oxygen at high altitude and collapsed.
We urged the state government to make direct arrangements to bring back his body.” Kristi Biswas, Brother-in-law of Thakurata, said he really liked Trekking, But they never thought that such tragedy would happen now.