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Two months after Nanda Devi avalanche, bodies of 7 mountaineers brought to Uttarakhand's Munsyari by ITBP in IAF choppers
•The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Wednesday brought down the bodies of seven climbers who were hit by an avalanche in May, from Nanda Devi to Munsyari.
Seven climbers who died on Nanda Devi peak were roped together when avalanche struck, says official
•The eight climbers were part of a 12-member expedition to the Nanda Devi peak, but four Britons were rescued after breaking away.
ITBP's efforts to retrieve dead bodies of mountaineers from Nanda Devi East peak hampered due to adverse weather conditions
•The acclimatisation process of 20 Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP) mountaineers, who have been sent to retrieve the bodies of eight mountaineers has been hampered due to bad weather condition. The attempt to rescue the trapped mountaineers from Nanda Devi East has been named Operation Daredevil.
Indian Mountaineering Foundation seeks Uttarakhand authorities’ nod to retrieve missing climbers’ bodies from Pindari glacier route
•The Indian Mountaineering Foundation, the apex body of mountaineering organisations in the country, has sought the permission of authorities in Uttarakhand to begin an expedition from Pindari glacier side to retrieve the bodies of mountaineers spotted near Nanda Devi East peak
ITBP, NDRF teams to retrieve climbers’ bodies from near Nanda Devi peak through land route after weather, terrain mar IAF’s attempts
•The bodies of five climbers, who died in avalanche while scaling the Nanda Devi East peak, will be brought back by the land route following IAF helicopters' repeated failure to retrieve them
ITBP to retrieve bodies of climbers from near Uttarakhand’s Nanda Devi peak in first-of-its-kind heliborne operation
•ITBP troops will undertake an operation to retrieve the mortal remains of at least eight mountaineers suspected to have been killed in an avalanche near an unscaled peak adjoining Nanda Devi East in Uttarakhand
IAF spots five bodies in Uttarakhand's Nanda Devi; suspected to belong to mountaineers who went missing
•The eight-member team consisting of climbers from the UK, US and Australia went missing en route to the Nanda Devi East peak. Bodies of five mountaineers were sighted near an unscaled peak adjoining the Nanda Devi East peak during an air search by air force helicopters on Monday, Pithoragarh district magistrate VK Jogdande said.
Little chances of finding eight missing climbers alive from Nanda Devi, say govt officials; two IAF helicopters, rescue team begin search ops
•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