Four Climbers From West Bengal Go Missing on Everest Expedition

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Agencies in Nepal have so far failed to establish contacts with Sunita Hazra, Paresh Nath, Goutam Ghosh and Subhash Pal, all residents of areas adjacent to Kolkata.

Four Bengal mountaineers went missing on Mount Everest after they left their camps for the summit early on Saturday morning.

Seven others from the state, separated in two groups, have already climbed the world's highest peak.

On May 19, a group of three mountaineers from Kolkata, Debraj Dutta, Pradip Sahu and Chetana Sahu set foot on the Everest summit. Pradip and Chetana are only the second couple in the country after Sushma and Vikas Kaushik from Haryana to summit Everest.

Chetana was afflicted with severe frost bite on her limbs during her descend from the summit and was airlifted to a hospital in Kathmandu. On Saturday morning, a group of another mountaineers Moloy Mukherjee, Satyarup Siddhanta, Rudraprasad Haldar and Ramesh Roy conquered Everest.

Faced with inclement weather during their descend, the four went out of their GPS trackers for a while but could later be traced after they reached camp 4.

Meanwhile, a former Everester, Rajib Bhattacharya, died on Dhaulagiri on Friday during his descend after reaching the world's seventh highest peak's summit as he was suffering from snow blindness and fell unconscious.