Avalanche In Himalayas

Three bodies were found on Wednesday by security personnel in Nepal after six people went missing while picking a precious Himalayan herb meant for vitality, as avalanches struck two remote mountainous regions.

Eight days after flash flood wrecked Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, 54 bodies have been recovered so, authorities have informed. That leaves over 150 persons still missing going by the initial estimates. Various forces are still racing against time to save possible survivors. The glacier burst in the upper Himalayas that caused the avalanche and d...

A helicopter mission on Wednesday to remove the bodies of five missing climbers believed killed in an avalanche high in the Himalayas was halted after encountering technical problems, officials said.

Authorities said on Tuesday it could take days to recover the bodies of a group of mountain climbers believed killed in an avalanche high in the Himalayas, as four of their colleagues who survived the expedition prepared to leave the mountains.

The body of an Indian was among nine found on Wednesday after 17 trekkers died in the Nepal Himalayas this week, official sources said.

An avalanche in the Himalayas has swept away a mountaineering team attempting to summit the world's fourteenth-highest peak, killing two Europeans and injuring another climber, a Nepalese official said Saturday.

Three bodies were found on Wednesday by security personnel in Nepal after six people went missing while picking a precious Himalayan herb meant for vitality, as avalanches struck two remote mountainous regions.

Eight days after flash flood wrecked Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, 54 bodies have been recovered so, authorities have informed. That leaves over 150 persons still missing going by the initial estimates. Various forces are still racing against time to save possible survivors. The glacier burst in the upper Himalayas that caused the avalanche and d...

A helicopter mission on Wednesday to remove the bodies of five missing climbers believed killed in an avalanche high in the Himalayas was halted after encountering technical problems, officials said.

Authorities said on Tuesday it could take days to recover the bodies of a group of mountain climbers believed killed in an avalanche high in the Himalayas, as four of their colleagues who survived the expedition prepared to leave the mountains.

The body of an Indian was among nine found on Wednesday after 17 trekkers died in the Nepal Himalayas this week, official sources said.

An avalanche in the Himalayas has swept away a mountaineering team attempting to summit the world's fourteenth-highest peak, killing two Europeans and injuring another climber, a Nepalese official said Saturday.