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Published : Jun 6, 2019, 6:18 PM IST
'తాగునీటి వృథాను ఆపాలంటూ ధర్నా'
'తాగునీటి వృథాను ఆపాలంటూ ధర్నా' అనంతపురం జిల్లా మల్లికార్జునపల్లి గ్రామస్థులు... రోడ్డుపై బైటాయించి ధర్నా చేశారు. కళ్యాణదుర్గం నుంచి రాయదుర్గం వరకూ చేపడుతున్న రోడ్డు విస్తరణ పనుల్లో... శ్రీరామ్ రెడ్డి తాగునీటి పథకానికి తరచూ అవాంతరాలు ఏర్పడుతున్నాయని ఆరోపించారు. సంబంధిత గుత్తేదారు నిర్లక్ష్యం వల్ల ఇలాంటి సంఘటనలు పునరావృతమవుతున్నాయని ఆవేదన వ్యక్తం చేశారు. తాగునీటి పథకానికి చెందిన అధికారులు వెంటనే మరమ్మతులు చేపట్టినా... మళ్లీ మళ్లీ లీకేజీలు అవుతున్నాయని ఆగ్రహించారు. ప్రస్తుతం ఉన్న పైపులను కాసా రోడ్డు పక్కకు మళ్లించాలని గుత్తేదారును డిమాండ్ చేశారు. ధర్నాతో ట్రాఫిక్కు తీవ్ర అంతరాయం ఏర్పడింది. పోలీసులు సంఘటనా స్థలానికి చేరుకుని సమస్య పరిష్కారానికి కృషి చేస్తామన్న హామీతో ధర్నా విరమించారు.
ఇవీ చూడండి-సోలార్ కుక్కర్... మేడ్ ఇన్ విశాఖ
'తాగునీటి వృథాను ఆపాలంటూ ధర్నా' అనంతపురం జిల్లా మల్లికార్జునపల్లి గ్రామస్థులు... రోడ్డుపై బైటాయించి ధర్నా చేశారు. కళ్యాణదుర్గం నుంచి రాయదుర్గం వరకూ చేపడుతున్న రోడ్డు విస్తరణ పనుల్లో... శ్రీరామ్ రెడ్డి తాగునీటి పథకానికి తరచూ అవాంతరాలు ఏర్పడుతున్నాయని ఆరోపించారు. సంబంధిత గుత్తేదారు నిర్లక్ష్యం వల్ల ఇలాంటి సంఘటనలు పునరావృతమవుతున్నాయని ఆవేదన వ్యక్తం చేశారు. తాగునీటి పథకానికి చెందిన అధికారులు వెంటనే మరమ్మతులు చేపట్టినా... మళ్లీ మళ్లీ లీకేజీలు అవుతున్నాయని ఆగ్రహించారు. ప్రస్తుతం ఉన్న పైపులను కాసా రోడ్డు పక్కకు మళ్లించాలని గుత్తేదారును డిమాండ్ చేశారు. ధర్నాతో ట్రాఫిక్కు తీవ్ర అంతరాయం ఏర్పడింది. పోలీసులు సంఘటనా స్థలానికి చేరుకుని సమస్య పరిష్కారానికి కృషి చేస్తామన్న హామీతో ధర్నా విరమించారు.
ఇవీ చూడండి-సోలార్ కుక్కర్... మేడ్ ఇన్ విశాఖ
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New Delhi – 4 June 2019
1. Close of a photograph taken in the year 2000 showing famous climbers – Edmund Hillary (bottom right), Maurice Herzog (bottom-left), Junko Tabei (centre), Reinhold Messner (top left), Manmohan Singh Kohli (top-right) at Kohli's residence
2. Maninder Kohli, owner of a trekking company and son of famous Indian climber Manmohan Singh Kohli describing the picture ++UPSOUND++ (English) "This is Edmund Hillary. This is Maurice Herzog"
3. Close pan of the picture as Maninder keeps talking ++UPSOUND++ (English): "This is a photograph taken when all of them got together."
4. Various of veteran climber Manmohan Singh Kohli talking to AP reporter
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Manmohan Singh Kohli, veteran Indian mountain climber:
"It is important that the leader of a mountain expedition should be adequately experienced. If he is not experienced enough, he is endangering the lives of his team. I had many, many narrow escapes like that. But just by good experience, good decision-making, I, we survived everywhere. Nobody ever died in my team."
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ARCHIVE: Everest – 21 May 2019
6. Fatigued climbers waiting in line to summit Everest
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Manmohan Singh Kohli, veteran Indian mountain climber:
"Now there are crowds there. So many teams going. I mean the whole…that feeling of being lonely and planning your own adventure, that instinct disappeared."
8. Various of Maninder showing his father's notes from his expedition to Mount Everest ++UPSOUND++ (English) "These are his original notes from Everest. This kind of notes is what mountaineers are actually encouraged to write."
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Maninder Singh Kohli, owner of a trekking company and son of famous Indian climber Manmohan Singh Kohli:
"Martin, I would feel, was a very experienced campaigner. He's been coming to India for many years. He's considered one of the top climbers. It is just that, avalanches, it's while you can read it sometimes, sometimes you can't. It's one of those situations. Sometimes as a team is walking on a, let's say walking on a steepish area, you could trigger the avalanche yourself. And I would imagine that could have been… one of the situations may have taken place like that."
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10. Search and rescue helicopter from the Indian Air Force taking off to retrieve five bodies believed to be mountaineers that went missing on Nanda Devi East
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Maninder Singh Kohli, owner of a trekking company and son of famous Indian climber Manmohan Singh Kohli:
"The draw of Everest, I don't see it ever going away. It's going to only increase. There are going to be more and more people who are going to want to summit it. More and more people who want to photograph it. There are people coming from everywhere in the world. It's a huge kind of, pull factor to it. So, it's just the question that times have changed now. You know in the earlier days there was obviously a higher challenge level to it. Now the people who are approaching the mountain are more, I would call, high altitude tourists. Their objective is to do something interesting, challenging. And they don't pretend to be mountaineers. They just want support and somebody to help them get there."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Manmohan Singh Kohli, veteran Indian mountain climber:
"You have to feel it. Because once you go to a mountain. And the experience, the adventure, the survival and the coming back. And actually, every time I went on those high peaks, every time, I said never again. This is the last time. But once you return to Delhi, after a couple of days the urge comes back. It comes back. And you go back again."
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ARCHIVE: Everest – 21 May 2019
13. Pan of area near Mount Everest summit with fatigued climbers waiting in line
STORYLINE:
To Manmohan Singh Kohli, who led the first Indian team to the peak of Mount Everest, modern mountaineering bears little resemblance to the expeditions he led decades ago.
Operators' tight schedules and climbers' lack of experience has added risks, diminished the adventure and resulted in more casualties, says the 88-year-old retired navy captain.
With Everest becoming a bucket-list item that more and more people pursue, serious climbers are looking to less popular peaks to prove their skill.
That may have inspired an expedition that went missing in the Indian Himalayas to try an uncharted summit in a less traversed area of the Himalayas.
The eight members of the multi-national team led by a veteran British mountaineer are presumed dead in an avalanche.
After Kohli led nine Indian climbers to the top of Everest in 1965, he became a celebrity.
The experienced climber joined India's state-owned airline to travel around the world to speak about the endeavour, which, at the time, had only been attempted by a handful of people.
Fifty years later, a bustling commercial climbing industry has sprung up in Nepal, pushing down costs and providing services - like porters from the ethnic Sherpa community who carry oxygen tanks, fix ropes and pitch tents.
It's turned what once was a rare and incredible feat into "high-altitude tourism," he said, who nearly died on Everest in an unsuccessful ascent in 1962.
"The adventure part of climbing has disappeared," he said.
The government of Nepal issued 381 Everest permits this year, a record number that resulted in climbers getting caught in "climbing jams" on the world's highest peak.
Nepal estimates 700 climbers including Sherpas were on the mountain this May.
The crowding caused delays in the so-called "death zone" from Camp 4 to the peak where, because of the altitude, climbers have just hours to reach the top before they are at risk of a pulmonary edema, when the lungs fill with liquid.
Eleven climbers died this season, the biggest death toll on Everest in four years.
"There are crowds there, so many teams going, that feeling of being lonely and planning your own adventure, that instinct has disappeared."
British mountaineer Martin Moran took his doomed expedition to notoriously technical and avalanche-prone Nanda Devi East, a 7,434-metre (24,390-foot) peak which, along with its slightly higher twin Nanda Devi Main, rises from the centre of a ring of icy peaks in the Kumaon Himalayas mountain range.
In 2015, Moran and fellow British mountaineer Mark Thomas set out to chart a new route along the northeast ridge of the peak.
Just about 500 metres (1,650 feet) short of the top, Moran and Thomas reached a razor-thin edge with soaring drops on both sides and decided to turn back.
Moran returned this May to lead an expedition to Nanda Devi East over the established route along the mountain's southeastern ridge, according to their online itinerary on Scotland-based Moran Mountain's webpage.
The 8,140 US dollar, 35-day expedition offered "a chance to climb one of the greatest and most challenging peaks of India," the itinerary said.
In addition to Moran, the team included three British nationals, John McLaren, Rupert Whewall and Richard Payne; two Americans, Anthony Sudekum and Ronald Beimel; and Indian liaison officer Chetan Pandey, according to Indian Mountaineering Foundation spokesman Amit Chowdhary.
Many mountaineers have lost their lives on the mountain, which has only been successfully climbed only a handful of times.
"In comparison with Nanda Devi East, Everest is a picnic," Maninder Kohli said, Captain Kohli's son and an avid trekker who manages risk assessment for the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, the group that approves expeditions.
Kohli tried and failed to summit Nanda Devi East, including an attempt in 1964 before he took the successful expedition of nine mountaineers to the top of Everest.
That expedition made India the fourth country to have a team conquer the world's highest peak, after Britain, Switzerland and the United States.
While climbing Nanda Devi East, Kohli survived two avalanches and two precipitous falls.
Kohli, a winner of India's top honour for athletic achievements for his mountaineering feats, recognises the draw for mountaineering purists.
"It's a bigger challenge, something which nobody else has done. If you do it, you become a pioneer," he said.
As Moran headed up with his team, Thomas remained at base camp with another, four-member trekking group. Their last contact with Moran's expedition "intimated that all was well, and a summit bid would be made," the company's statement said. "It's not entirely clear what happened from this point onwards."
Thomas set out to search for the missing climbers after radio updates ceased May 26.
He followed a trail left by the missing climbers that dead-ended in an avalanche and sounded an alert. Thomas and the other trekkers were evacuated from base camp Sunday. On a flyover mission, Thomas and other searchers again spotted the trail but not the climbers.
"They could see from the helicopter footmarks of the team but nothing else," Chowdhary said.
On Monday, Indian Air Force pilots spotted five bodies by air that authorities believe were some of the missing climbers, since no other expeditions were underway. The three other climbers were also presumed dead, Vijay Kumar Jogdande said, an Uttarakhand state official.
Kohli's perilous attempt to summit Nanda Devi East in 1964 was organised to select a team for the 1965 Everest climb, India's third and ultimately successful mission.
According to Kohli's 2003 book "Miracles of Ardaas: Incredible Adventures and Survivals," his group set out to scale both Trisuli, a 7,120-metre (23,203-foot) peak, and Nanda Devi East.
On Trisuli, an avalanche swept down, making further progress impossible. Kohli and the others then set out for Nanda Devi East, but had to abandon the attempt in a strong blizzard.
During their descent, one of the climbers slipped in the deep snow and set off an avalanche that sent them tumbling 1,000 metres (3,000 feet) downhill in just minutes.
"I had many, many narrow escapes like that, but just by good experience and good decision-making, we survived everywhere. Nobody ever died on my team," he said.
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