Woman mountaineer, two sherpas go missing on Kanchenjunga

Gayen, best known for being the first civilian women from West Bengal to scale Mount Everest, went missing Tuesday.

Renowned mountaineer Chhanda Gayen and two of her accompanying sherpas, who were attempting to scale the 8,505-metre-high Kan-chenjunga West, known as Yalung Kang in Nepal, are reported to be missing.

Gayen, best known for being the first civilian women from West Bengal to scale Mount Everest, went missing Tuesday after being caught in an avalanche, as per the information received here.

She annexed the 8,585-metre high Kanchenjunga Main, the third tallest peak, on May 18 along with three other climbers from Kolkata — Tusi Das, Dipankar Ghosh and Rajib Bhattacharjee.

According to reports available Tusi, Rajiv and Dipankar decided to return to the base camp after the summit while Chhanda along with two sherpas — Dawa Wangchu and Mingma Temba — went on to climb the nearby Yalung Kang, also known as Kanchenjuga West.

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