SHIMLA/MANALI: After a nail-biting search operation, a rescue team led by director, ABVIMAS Manali Avinash Negi has finally contacted the four mountaineers stuck in the snowclad dizzying heights of 5458 m high Ali Ratni Peak today.
The team from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports(ABVIMAS) was led by its director Avinash Negi.
The four missing trekkers who have been traced out have been identified as Abhijit Banik, 43, Chinmoy Mondal, 43, Dibash Das, 37 and Binoy Das, 31- all from West Bengal.
It was a gruelling task as rescue team did not have any clue about location of the four trekkers from West Bengal, who lost their ways on the way to Ali Ratni Peak. They forged ahead from their base camp on September 7 and went missing since then.
A member of the ABVIMAS team got in touch with them today as we were sounded on this today, said Negi. “All of them are in good health”.
ABVIMAS team is making an effort to bring them to the base camp, he said. “Hopefully the rescued mountaineers will finally reach the base camp bu tomorrow”, Negi said.
They got to know about the missing trekkers today morning as the Ali Ratna Peak is in “no signal zone”.
They were on the way to Aliratni Peak at 5458 m on September 7 from the Summit camp but lost their ways and remained missing for five days since then.
The news of how four trekkers went missing was shared by the two members and one cook of the seven members team when they reached back to Wachem(near Malana), the oldest surviving village democracy in Kullu district.
The news was further shared to the ABVIMAS and district administration by Debraj Dutta one of the organisers of the expedition few hours back.
‘It was not a club organized mountain expedition”. “It is a self-organized self-supported mountain climbing expedition”, Dutta said.
Flagging the message to Kullu administration today, Dutta said, “My humble request to you, please take all possible measures so that a rescue team can be sent by the local administration to help this climbers as soon as possible”,
The Kullu administration did not waste a minute and sounded ABVIMAS, which launched rescue team with a lightening speed to trace out the missing trekkers.