After an avalanche struck Siachen’s northern glacier in J&K, at least Army soldiers have gone missing. The soldiers were reportedly patrolling the glacier at an altitude of 5,800 m. Army and Air Force rescue teams have been deployed said Colonel S D Goswami.
The Siachen area is known for avalanches and landslides during the winter and the temperatures can drop to -60°C. In January this year, 4 soldiers were killed in an avalanche. In 2015 another 4 died when their vehicle was buried under an avalanche near Leh, Ladakh. It is estimated that 8,000 soldiers have died on the glacier since 1984, all of them from avalanches, landslides, frostbite, altitude sickness or heart failure, but none from actual comba