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Mount Everest: Search still on for missing Indians

PTI
Published : May 25, 2016, 6:28 am IST
Updated : May 25, 2016, 6:28 am IST

Rescuers racing against time continued their search for the two missing Indian climbers on Mount Everest for the fourth day on Tuesday as hope to find them alive receded.

Rescuers racing against time continued their search for the two missing Indian climbers on Mount Everest for the fourth day on Tuesday as hope to find them alive receded.

Discussions with authorities were underway to find Paresh Chandra Nath (58) and Goutam Ghosh (51), said Mr Wangchu Sherpa, the managing director at Trekking Camp Nepal.

Nath and Ghosh were near the summit of the 8,848-metre peak on Saturday when they lost contact with the rest of the four-member team, all of whom were Indians.

One of the team members Subhash Pal died after falling ill on Sunday. The fourth woman member Sunita Hazra was rescued and taken to hospital.

Meanwhile, an expert said that there are enough safety measures taken along the expedition route to Mount Everest that there is no possibility that a climber can go missing on the world’s highest peak in Nepal.

Mr Ang Tshering Sherpa, Nepal Mountain-eering Association chief whose organisation helps the government in managing expeditions, said that there was no chance of any climber going missing while scaling the Everest. Ropes have been fixed on the Everest from the base camp to the peak and each and every climber is tied to the rope, so as to prevent any untoward incident, he said.

“Therefore, it was not possible for climbers to go missing unless he or she does some mischievous work,” he said.

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