A dramatic video of a 33-year-old Indian mountain climber being rescued from a 200 to 300 foot deep crevice in the Himalayas is going viral. The one-a-half-hour rescue operation was carried out by Indian troops and fellow mountaineers in the middle of the night night at a height of 15,800 feet.
Jaishri Dumbre, who’s been climbing for the last eight years, was part of a 35-member team which was on an expedition to scale a 18,600-foot high mountain called Draupadi Ka Danda-II in the hilly state of Uttarakhand. The 33-year-old mountaineer fell into the hidden crevice soon after leaving her camp to start the day’s expedition with two other climbers at 1.30 a.m. Read more…
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