An ambitious mountaineer recounts the experience of being in the thick of a deadly avalanche on the highest mountain range in the world. While he survived to tell the tale, many of his comrades did not.
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Twenty-nine mountaineers of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering had gone missing on Tuesday after an avalanche in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district.
Kamal Chakraborty is a writer who runs the Bhalopahar Society dedicated to forest conservation and tribal development
Ashutosh, who was on the edge of the mountain, was hit by the avalanche when he was just 20 metres short of the summit and he fell towards the Dhundi–Atal tunnel side on Saturday.
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