Bengaluru: A team of trekkers from Karnataka, including eight women have not communicated with their familes since the earthquake. Families and peers of a team of 15 Bengaluru-based trekkers are waiting for information on their status.
When last in contact, the trekkers had left their hotel in Kathmandu as it developed cracks, and spent Saturday night on the streets. They left for the airport at 8 a.m. on Sunday after hearing that the Indian government was arranging for a flight for Indians to New Delhi.
Siddalingaswamy, senior mountaineer, Karnataka Mountaineering Association, said, “We have no information till now on whether they have reached Delhi.”
He considered himself lucky as he was part of a team of trekkers who left for Delhi from Kathmandu at 11 a.m. on Saturday. “We were informed by the captain at 11.45 a.m. that there had been an earthquake.”
Family members of C.N. Praveen, wall walking champion, who went to Nepal for a trekking expedition, heaved a sigh of relief after hearing that he is safe.
The Bengaluru-based trekker was part of a four-member group consisting of two Indians and two Sherpas and had gone trekking to the Mount Everest. From Camp 3, he reached Camp 2, where the weather was very bad and the routes between the camps became blurred.
The tragedy in Nepal has not deterred trekkers from going for expeditions in the Himalayas. A team of trekkers from the Mysuru-based International Academy of Mountaineering and Allied Sports (IAMAS) is set to go mountaineering in Himachal Pradesh. Deepak Solanki, founder, IAMAS, said the team’s plan is on.
