While climbing Chaukhambha in the evening, the luggage and other equipment of the foreign mountaineer fell into the ravine along with the bag.
Due to which he got stuck on the snow-covered Chaukhambha mountain.
The search operation for the foreign climber on Chaukhambha mountain has started by a joint team of Air Force and SDRF from the Jyotirmath Army helipad.
After conducting the first round of search operation, no success has been achieved so far, now the team has left for the second round of search operation.
Two foreign women tourists who went for trekking to Chaukhambha-3 in Chamoli, Uttarakhand got stuck there.
On Friday, two Air Force helicopters conducted a search operation in the area, but their location could not be found.
The Forest Department has sought help from SDRF to send helicopters and conduct a search operation, while on the request of the district administration, the NDRF team has also left from Dehradun for the search operation. The search for both the foreign tourists will be conducted on Saturday.
British citizen Faijne Manners (27) and USA citizen Michelle Theresa Devorok (23) went for Chaukhambha trekking after taking permission from Indian Count Training Association to climb Chaukhambha Peak-3, situated at a height of 6995 meters. They have permission from 11 September to 18 October.
limbing Chaukhambha on October 3 evening, their luggage and other equipment fell into the ditch along with the bag. Due to which they got stuck on the snow-covered Chaukhambha mountain. The female tourists contacted their embassy through pager.
After which the Chamoli district administration requested the Air Force to conduct a search operation.
On Friday morning, two Chetak helicopters of the Air Force took off from Sarsawa (Saharanpur) airbase and conducted a search operation on Chaukhambha-3 peak near Badrinath.
Even after a lot of search, the missing tourists could not be traced.
On Thursday evening, information was received about foreign tourists getting stuck in Chaukhambha. On which the Air Force was requested for a search operation on Friday morning.
Two helicopters of the Air Force conducted a search operation. But did not succeed. An attempt will be made to rescue the stranded tourists today.
