2022 Uttarakhand avalanche | |
Date: | 4 October 2022 |
Location: | Uttarakhand, India |
Reported Deaths: | 27 |
On 4 October 2022, an avalanche hit the Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand, India. 27 mountaineers in the Advanced Mountaineering Course of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering were killed as a result.[1] The death toll makes this the worst mountaineering disaster recorded in India.[2]