The toll from the Uttarkashi avalanche rose to 26 as seven more bodies were recovered on Friday, the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) said in a statement.
Fifteen bodies were recovered on Thursday as a rescue operation in Uttarkashi continued days after the avalanche hit a 41-member team of mountaineering trainees and instructors from the NIM. Three members of the expedition team are still missing.
Twelve people have been rescued so far. Four bodies, including that of ace mountaineer Savita Kanswal, 26, who set a national record by climbing Mount Everest and Mount Makalu within 16 days earlier this year, were recovered on Tuesday.
The bodies of Kanswal, another instructor Naumi, 24, and trainees Shivam Kainthala and Ajay Bisht of Almora have been taken to Uttarkashi district hospital, Hindustan Times reported.
The search for remaining missing trainee mountaineers and instructors was underway. (With inputs from Hindustan Times)
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