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| Date | 4 October 2022 |
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| Location | Uttarakhand, India |
| Deaths | 27 |
On 4 October 2022, an avalanche hit the Draupadi Ka Danda peak in Uttarakhand, India. 27 mountaineers in the Advanced Mountaineering Course of the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering were killed as a result. [1] The death toll makes this the worst mountaineering disaster recorded in India. [2]
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