Mountaineer Anurag Maloo Who Survived Freak Accident On Nepal's Mount Annapurna, Flown Back To India

Mountaineer Anurag Maloo, who survived a near-death accident on Mount Annapurna in Nepal in April, has been flown to India, where he will undergo treatment.

Maloo, who was undergoing treatment in Kathmandu ever since he was found alive on April 20, was airlifted to Delhi on Thursday night.

Anurag Maloo

Anurag fell from around 6,000 meters

According to his brother, Maloo was airlifted to New Delhi for further treatment at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after he regained consciousness.

34-year-old Maloo, a resident of Kishangarh in Rajasthan, went missing in mid-April after he fell from around 6,000 meters while descending from Camp III. Mount Annapurna is the 10th highest mountain in the world.

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He was found alive in a deep crevasse at some 5800-metre altitude on April 20 after three days of continuous search by a team of rescuers. He was rushed to Manipal Hospital in Pokhara and then airlifted to Kathmandu for further treatment.

Anurag has gained consciousness

Maloo was undergoing treatment at the Medicity Hospital in Lalitpur near Kathmandu, where he underwent a successful tracheostomy surgery last week.

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Maloo was on a mission to climb all 14 peaks above 8,000 metres and the seven highest points in all seven continents to create awareness and drive action towards achieving the UN Global Goals. He has been awarded REX Karam -- Veer Chakra and became the 2041 Antarctic Youth Ambassador from India.

Thaneshwor Guragain, a staff at Seven Summit Trek, a body that organised the expedition, said Maloo opened his eyes and also talked a little bit.

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Two more Indians rescued

Around the same time, another renowned Indian mountaineer Baljeet Kaur had also gone missing on Mount Annapurna and was initially presumed dead.

However, the record-holding Indian woman climber who went missing near Camp IV of Annapurna while descending from the summit point was rescued through a chopper using a longline technique.

Baljeet Kaur

The aerial search mission was initiated after Kaur, who scaled the world's 10th-highest peak without using supplemental oxygen, managed to send a radio signal asking for "immediate help".

Another Indian national, Arjun Vajpai, the youngest from the country to climb Everest in 2010, was also rescued from the areas between Camp III and Camp IV of Annapurna.

Baljeet Kaur

Irish mountaineer found dead

While two more climbers, Shehroze Kashif and Naila Kiani from Pakistan, were rescued, another renowned mountaineer was found dead.

Noel Hanna

Renowned Irish climber, Noel Hanna, died in Camp IV of Annapurna on April 17. His body was found lying at Camp IV, according to Yubraj Khatiwada, director at the Department of Tourism.

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