KULLU: A team of 19 trekkers, including 12 Army personnel, was rescued from Pin Parbati glacier in Lahaul and Spiti district where it was stranded due to untimely snowfall last week. The group, airlifted by the Army helicopters to Bhuntar airport late Sunday, has been taken to the headquarters, police said on Monday.
"Nineteen trekkers of the Pathankot-based AD Regiment were rescued by the Indian Army on Sunday. They had been stuck in the high altitude slopes of Pin Valley for the past many days due to hostile weather," Superintendent of Police K K Indoria said.
The Army personnel were on a routine trekking expedition from Kheer Ganga near Manikaran in Kullu district to Pin valley in Lahaul and Spiti. "Due to widespread snowfall, the expedition got stuck near Mantlai (in the Spiti Valley). As the weather cleared on Sunday, three military choppers were pressed into service and members of the expedition team, including six porters and a guide, were airlifted," Indoria said.
Sources at the Bhuntar airport, too, confirmed that three Army helicopters had been carrying out sorties since Saturday and that a bigger chopper was inducted in the search on Sunday. An officer who had been coordinating the rescue from Bhuntar said the trekkers had remained in constant touch with the headquarters.
"Nineteen trekkers of the Pathankot-based AD Regiment were rescued by the Indian Army on Sunday. They had been stuck in the high altitude slopes of Pin Valley for the past many days due to hostile weather," Superintendent of Police K K Indoria said.
The Army personnel were on a routine trekking expedition from Kheer Ganga near Manikaran in Kullu district to Pin valley in Lahaul and Spiti. "Due to widespread snowfall, the expedition got stuck near Mantlai (in the Spiti Valley). As the weather cleared on Sunday, three military choppers were pressed into service and members of the expedition team, including six porters and a guide, were airlifted," Indoria said.
Sources at the Bhuntar airport, too, confirmed that three Army helicopters had been carrying out sorties since Saturday and that a bigger chopper was inducted in the search on Sunday. An officer who had been coordinating the rescue from Bhuntar said the trekkers had remained in constant touch with the headquarters.
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