On Wednesday morning, 28-year-old mountaineer Deepshikha Hazarika’s father got here to know from TV News that An avalanche struck the group that included his daughter, and that many of the members are lacking. Golap Hazarika, an worker of the Health Department within the Government of Assam, was scared and upset and knowledgeable his superior, who had organized for 2 air tickets from Guwahati to Delhi. After reaching Delhi along with his son Deepjyoti late on Wednesday night time, the Assam authorities organized a automotive for them to succeed in Dehradun, the place they’d stayed on Thursday, after which to the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) in Uttarkashi on Friday.
After days of uncertainty, the largest apprehension of the gossip on Friday night time got here true with the information that Deepshikha was among the many lifeless.
“I was alone at home when I saw the news on Wednesday morning. The incident happened on Tuesday but we had no idea. During the flight to Delhi, and the entire journey from there to Uttarkashi, we kept on praying. We didn’t know what to do, waited anxiously. Only on Friday night, I came to know that my only daughter was gone,” mentioned Golap, crying whereas ready to gather the physique on the ITBP camp in Uttarkashi’s Matli city.
According to NIM officers, the physique will probably be shifted to Dehradun and from there the Assam authorities has made preparations to take it to Deepshikha’s dwelling district, Guwahati. Similar preparations have been made by the Meghalaya authorities to move the physique of Tiklu Jirwa, a member of the Meghalaya Sport Climbing and Mountaineering Association (MeSCMA) and one other avalanche sufferer.
Draupadi Ka Danda-2 (DKD-2) After a slab avalanche fell on the summit, when a workforce of 34 trainees and seven instructors had been attempting to scale it as a part of the superior mountaineering course, thus far the rescue workforce has managed 26 The our bodies have been recovered, whereas three individuals are nonetheless lacking. Only 12 out of 41 may very well be saved.
Due to dangerous climate, Air Force helicopters may convey solely 11 of the 26 our bodies (4 on Friday and 7 on Saturday) to the NIM base camp and from there to the ITBP camp. The 4 our bodies introduced on Friday embody Himachal resident Shivam Kainthala, Uttarakhand resident Savita Kanswal and Naumi Rawat.
Bodies of Deepshikha, Uttarakhand resident Shubham Sangri, Siddharth Khanduri, Rahul Panwar, Meghalaya resident Tiklu Jyrwa, Haryana resident Nitish Dahiya, and Uttar Pradesh resident Ravi Kumar Nirmal arrived on the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) camp in an Army chopper on Saturday morning.
While the victims of slab avalanche had been from completely different states, one factor that united them was their immense love for mountains and keenness for climbing.
“He had a deep passion for mountaineering from a very young age. She was a lover of mountains. I remember, when Deepshikha applied for the Assam Mountaineering Association (AMA), she was just 13 or 14 years old, but was denied admission because of her young age. She came back home crying and threatened to cut her wrist if she was not selected. I had to try hard to convince her to wait a few years and then follow her passion for the mountains,” mentioned Gollap, attempting his finest to border the phrases.
Waiting on the ITBP camp – the place take-off and touchdown of Army choppers has been extra frequent for the previous few days – members of different distraught households additionally await the our bodies of their family members.
“We reached here on Tuesday and have been waiting since then. On the first day we stayed at a hotel and shifted to NIM campus on Wednesday. Whenever we ask the officials, they tell us that they are giving every information they get from the base camp,” mentioned Saurabh Panwar, elder brother of Kapil Panwar (22), a resident of Dehradun, who has now died. .
“We do not know how long we will have to wait. The only thing we have found so far is Kapil’s luggage which he left at NIM before his trek. This includes his clothes, documents required for the advanced course and his travel diary,” mentioned Kapil’s cousin Navdeep, exhibiting Kapil’s Instagram web page “Himalayan”, the place he posted photos from his mountain journeys. Navdeep mentioned that he has not but opened Kapil’s diary.
Navdeep is likely one of the 20 members of his prolonged household who’re ready on the ITBP camp.
The lifeless embody Shivam Kainthala, a resident of Himachal Pradesh, and his cousin Anshul Kainthala. Some members of Shivam’s household have taken his physique again to his hometown, whereas others are nonetheless ready for Anshul.
An NIM official mentioned that on Friday night time, about 14 households had been ready for the lifeless our bodies of their family members staying within the campus. About seven of them are nonetheless ready. Some households are going to Uttarkashi.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
