The foreign affairs department tonight said it was providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian “that may be among a group of trekkers missing in the Nanda Devi area of India”. The ABC reports the woman is from Sydney and an experienced amateur climber who had been on mountain expeditions in India’s Ladakh region previously. When they failed to return to base camp, mountaineers searched a higher camp and found the group’s tents empty. Local mountaineers report there was a heavy avalanche on the group’s proposed route, the ABC reports. The eight-member team was being led by B...
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