A Polish mountaineer, part of a five-member mountaineering expedition team to Shivling mountain near Gaumukh in Uttarkashi district, is reported to have died on Thursday evening with no trace being found of his ailing companion till the time of this report being filed.
Rescue teams comprising Army personnel and those from the Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering had also joined the effort in search of the foreign climbers reported stranded at the high altitude region about 6,200 metres above sea level purportedly following equipment failure on Tuesday.
There were unconfirmed reports of rescue teams finding one of the missing mountaineers on Wednesday but the Polish man who had survived sub-zero temperatures for about 72 hours is reported to have slipped and fallen to his death. His body has been recovered while his companion is reported to be sick for about three days now was not been found till the time of this report being filed. According to information from the Uttarkashi district disaster control room, teams comprising personnel of the SDRF, NDRF, police and forest department among others had also left for the site but no further information was being made available at present.