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In
a unique mission, the Indian Air Force''s Jaguar deep-penetration strike aircraft
have been flying sorties over the Garhwal Himalayas in an effort to trace five
Indian Army mountain climbers, who went missing in a blizzard on 1 October. Using
newly installed infrared cameras the Jaguars have been flying sorties over the
Nanda Devi massif, India''s second highest peak, over the past two days in an attempt
to pick up traces of the missing climbers. The
air force is trying to make use of high frequency imaging cameras that the Jaguars
are equipped with to pick up traces on the ground that might help locate the five
missing climbers, which include an army Major and two Junior Commissioned Officers. The
Jaguars are carrying out their unique mission after a helicopter hunt failed to
find any traces of the missing men. The army climbers were part of an 18-member
expedition trying to scale the Nanda Devi East peak. The
last message from the missing men had said that they would reach their camp in
an hour. Nothing more has either been heard or seen of them since.
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