Army team on expedition to Satopanth peak finds frozen remains of mountaineer
The Hindu
The remains will be sent for DNA testing, and only after that can something conclusive be said about it, Uttarkashi SP said
An Army mountaineering team on a recent expedition to the Satopanth peak in the Garhwal Himalayas stumbled across frozen remains of a person in fatigues, giving rise to speculations it could be a soldier who went missing 16 years ago.
The body, with mountaineering equipment strewn all around it, was found by the Army team on September 23, and it was brought to Gangotri and handed over to the police.
From the clothes, it appears to be a soldier who had gone missing in the course of an expedition to the 7,075-metre-high peak in 2005, Lt. Colonel Harshdeep Gehlot said on September 26.
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