Missing Indian Mountaineer Found

After a 56-year-long wait, the body of Sepoy Malkhan Singh, who went missing in a 1968 aircraft crash at the snow-clad mountains of Himachal Pradesh's Rohtang, will be arriving at his home here, officials said here.

The body of a 39-year-old missing Italian trekker was found while an injured mountaineer was rescued in a separate operation by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Ladakh, officials said on Sunday.

Indian climber Anurag Maloo, who went missing while descending Nepal's Mount Annapurna last week, has been found alive, but is in a critical condition.

Baljeet Kaur, a 27-year-old leading Indian woman climber was found alive today, a day after she went missing near Camp IV of Mt Annapurna while descending from the summit point, an official of the expedition organiser said.

Three Indian Navy officers and a sailor were killed in an avalanche during a mountaineering expedition to Mount Trishul in Uttarakhand, the Defence Ministry said today.

A rescue team has recovered seven bodies believed to be of a group of mountaineers who went missing while climbing the Nanda Devi peak late last month, news agency PTI quoted an official as saying today.

Six bodies and remains of seven others have been recovered from the site where an Indian Air Force An-32 aircraft crashed in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh earlier this month. The wreckage of the missing aircraft was located by a Mi-17 helicopter on June 11, following which an operation to search for the bodies or possible survivors was launche...

Two Indian Air Force helicopters and a rescue team scoured the Himalayan region around the Nanda Devi mountain for eight missing climbers without success on Sunday and survivors are unlikely to be found, two government officials said.

Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu, who went missing since March 24 while on a climb in the Andes Mountains in Argentina, has been found dead.

Searchers on Friday found the body of an American man who had been missing in the rugged mountains in central Mexico since going on a hike four days ago.

Rescue workers have not found any trace so far of the mountaineer Chhanda Gayen and two Sherpas, who went missing after being caught in an avalanche while attempting to climb 8,505-metre-high Kangchenjunga West.

After a 56-year-long wait, the body of Sepoy Malkhan Singh, who went missing in a 1968 aircraft crash at the snow-clad mountains of Himachal Pradesh's Rohtang, will be arriving at his home here, officials said here.

The body of a 39-year-old missing Italian trekker was found while an injured mountaineer was rescued in a separate operation by the Indian Air Force (IAF) in Ladakh, officials said on Sunday.

Indian climber Anurag Maloo, who went missing while descending Nepal's Mount Annapurna last week, has been found alive, but is in a critical condition.

Baljeet Kaur, a 27-year-old leading Indian woman climber was found alive today, a day after she went missing near Camp IV of Mt Annapurna while descending from the summit point, an official of the expedition organiser said.

Three Indian Navy officers and a sailor were killed in an avalanche during a mountaineering expedition to Mount Trishul in Uttarakhand, the Defence Ministry said today.

A rescue team has recovered seven bodies believed to be of a group of mountaineers who went missing while climbing the Nanda Devi peak late last month, news agency PTI quoted an official as saying today.

Six bodies and remains of seven others have been recovered from the site where an Indian Air Force An-32 aircraft crashed in the mountains of Arunachal Pradesh earlier this month. The wreckage of the missing aircraft was located by a Mi-17 helicopter on June 11, following which an operation to search for the bodies or possible survivors was launche...

Two Indian Air Force helicopters and a rescue team scoured the Himalayan region around the Nanda Devi mountain for eight missing climbers without success on Sunday and survivors are unlikely to be found, two government officials said.

Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu, who went missing since March 24 while on a climb in the Andes Mountains in Argentina, has been found dead.

Searchers on Friday found the body of an American man who had been missing in the rugged mountains in central Mexico since going on a hike four days ago.

Rescue workers have not found any trace so far of the mountaineer Chhanda Gayen and two Sherpas, who went missing after being caught in an avalanche while attempting to climb 8,505-metre-high Kangchenjunga West.