"He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother": Ex Soldier Praises Op To Retrieve 3 Bodies
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Brigadier Hardeep Singh Sohi (retired) in a post on X thanked and congratulated soldiers of the Gulmarg-based High-Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) for retrieving the bodies
A retired army officer has explained why it took over nine months to retrieve the bodies of three soldiers who died after their mountaineering expedition team was struck by an avalanche in October 2023 at a height of over 18,300 feet in Ladakh. #OperationRTGSome people are questioning as to why were the bodies of three soldiers buried for over 9 months and efforts were not made to retrieve them earlier. To set the record straight:-1 When four soldiers were lost on 8 Oct 23, after 6 days of digging one body was... pic.twitter.com/XAPw5c34fe
Brigadier Hardeep Singh Sohi (retired) in a post on X thanked and congratulated soldiers of the Gulmarg-based High-Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) for retrieving the bodies.
The bodies of Havildar Rohit Kumar, Havildar Thakur Bahadur Ale, and Naik Gautam Rajbanshi were trapped deep within a crevasse and lay buried under thick layers of ice and large volumes of snow for the last nine months.
