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Tribute On Draupadi's Danda II : Honouring The 2022 Uttarkashi Avalanche Victims

NIM's resilient spirit: commemorating the 2022 avalanche tragedy and mountaineering feats

Uttarkashi: On October 4, 2022, twenty nine trainees and instructors from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering Advanced Course were swept away by an avalanche while returning from a successful summit. All the 29 climbers were killed in the avalanche.

On the anniversary of the incident this year, Colonel Hemchandra Singh, Principal of the Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, and NIM's Captains Santosh Kumar, Vinod Gusain, Saurav Singh, Azad Rana, Anshul Galta, and six advanced course trainees successfully summited Draupadi's Danda-II peak.

The team dedicated the success

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