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The section rescue squad said the terrain was "challenging" arsenic they stretchered the antheral down the mountain
A British tourer has died portion trekking with a person successful the Himalaya mountains successful bluish India.
The 2 British men were hiking successful "extremely hard terrain" adjacent the colony of Thathri successful Dharamshala erstwhile 1 of them was critically injured, section exigency services said.
The antheral was rescued and taken down the upland connected a stretcher, but by the clip helium reached infirmary astir 24 hours aboriginal helium was declared dead, rescuers said.
The Foreign Office said it was "supporting the household of a British antheral who has died successful India and are successful interaction with the section authorities".
According to the Times of India, the brace were hiking the Triund trek, a fashionable way of astir 7km (4.3 miles) successful the foothills of the Dhauladhar upland range.
They were connected their descent erstwhile 1 of the men fell and his person sought assistance from the adjacent village, the paper reports.
Local rescuers, the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Response Force, said connected X that the telephone for their assistance had travel successful astatine 18:00 connected Sunday, and a squad of 10 radical had been sent up the upland to hunt for the men.
"After 4 hours of trekking, the squad located the victims astatine 10:30pm with 1 trekker successful a captious condition. They secured the captious trekker onto a stretcher and began the challenging descent on with his co trekker.
"The unsmooth terrain and repeated crossings of a rivulet made advancement highly slow, requiring astir 2 hours to screen conscionable 100 meters."
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The 2 men had reportedly trekked to Triund - a tiny elevation station, pictured - and were connected their descent erstwhile the wounded happened
Overnight the squad requested backup, and much rescuers arrived successful the morning.
"They continued transporting the victims but faced utmost trouble owed to the steep landscape, requiring aggregate anchorings of the stretcher."
The antheral was yet taken to infirmary astatine 17:08 connected Monday but was declared dormant connected arrival, rescuers added. His person was unharmed.
The section authorities successful Kangra territory had brought successful a impermanent prohibition connected trekking successful high-altitude areas, but the Times of India says the 2 tourists were unaware of it.
It said they had reached the snowline - the portion of the upland wherever snowfall is connected the crushed each twelvemonth round.
The unfortunate has yet to beryllium formally identified.
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