The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) is studying the possibility of deploying mountaineering specialists to the highest areas of the Himalayas, prepared and acclimatized to carry out rescue operations in the event of snow avalanches, landslides and glacial lakes, among others.
The emergency organization has launched a series of responses to deal with natural or man-made disasters in the fragile mountain ranges of North India, which experts say may suffer from an increase in accidents due to various reasons such as climate change and human development.
NDRF Director-General Atul Karwal stated that the organization is taking a number of measures to deal with mountain disasters as such incidents threaten in the future.
According to Karwal, the Himalayas are young mountains, the forces that formed them are still at work and therefore these mountains are neither settled nor stable. Something is changing here and the reasons given by experts for this are diverse, such as climate change, wild growth and the violation of the carrying capacity of these regions.
The floods caused by a glacial lake overflow in the city of Chamoli in February 2021 and the recent land subsidence in Joshimath and nearby areas are some of the disasters that have happened in the mountain areas recently.
The NDRF boss underlined the basic principle of getting used to the environment physically before each task, since the climatic conditions are different from those on the flat, such as. B. low oxygen levels and freezing temperatures.
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