ITBP releases video showing last moments of Himalayan climbers
New Delhi, July 9 (IBNS): A video has been shared on the social media by Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) which has purportedly showed the last minutes of a team of mountain climbers who was swept away in an avalanche as they attempted to expedite an unexplored peak in the Himalayas.
ITBP search team of mountaineers found the memory video device at 19K ft while they were searching the area where bodies were spotted.
"Last visuals of the mountaineers' team near the summit on unnamed peak near the #NandaDevi east. ITBP search team of mountaineers found the memory video device at 19K ft while they were searching the area where bodies were spotted," the ITBP tweeted.
Last visuals of the mountaineers' team near the summit on unnamed peak near the #NandaDevi east. ITBP search team of mountaineers found the memory video device at 19K ft while they were searching the area where bodies were spotted. pic.twitter.com/0BI87MEA8Y
— ITBP (@ITBP_official) July 8, 2019
The clip is 1.55 minutes long.
In the video people could see eight climbers roped together as they take steps up an unnamed peak.
The group began their ascent on 13 May, led by experienced British mountain guide Martin Moran whose Scotland-based company, Moran Mountain, has run numerous expeditions in the Indian Himalayas, reported BBC.
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