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Avalanche traps about 150 Pakistani soldiers

Weather was expected to be clear for about 12 hours today, giving a window of opportunity for flights in the area.

When were these photos taken?

Sometimes yesterday.
It's a huge challenging task for our boys....working in sub-zero temperatures while having to wear all that protective clothing.
When the weather closes in, it's not that they stop digging and go under a shelter. !!
 
Sometimes yesterday.
It's a huge challenging task for our boys....working in sub-zero temperatures while having to wear all that protective clothing.
When the weather closes in, it's not that they stop digging and go under a shelter. !!

Hatts off to the these rescue teams !!! May Allah gives them the reward and may Allah keeps thr passions high for thr brothers. Ameen !!

Fingers Crossed !
 
dont know what to post in this thread
:cry:
what can one say..
what can one do!!

May Allah help these brave men, may some mirical happen,

we salute you! we pray for you!

and look at those working in sub zero temperatures, in one of worlds worst climatic conditions, day in day out, trying, hoping, they can get there brothers back!!

have been following the thread from day one, didn't have the courage to post!
:cry:

GOD PLEASE!!
 
from: Army digs deep for soldiers buried in avalanche | DAWN.COM

ISLAMABAD: Rescuers searching for 138 people buried by an avalanche at a high-altitude Pakistani army camp are to dig a deep tunnel into the huge mass of snow and ice, the military said Thursday.

A huge wall of snow crashed into the remote Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir early on Saturday morning, smothering an area of one square kilometre (a third of a square mile).

Search teams are looking for the trapped soldiers and civilians at six different points on the site, around 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) up in the mountains.

At one, mechanical excavators dug down through 35 metres (115 feet) of snow, the military said, and rescuers were about to start work on a 40-metre horizontal tunnel to reach the camp’s accommodation area. Excavation work has gone down 30 metres at another site.

More than 450 rescuers are working in sub-zero temperatures at the site, though experts have said there is virtually no chance of finding any survivors.


Military photographs showed diggers and rescuers at work on an almost featureless expanse of dirty grey snow and ice, with no trace visible of the camp that had been the 6th Northern Light Infantry headquarters.
 
Question to photographers, why does the snow look all dirty compared to the snow in the background?

Is the background snow so bright that the camera is compensating the foreground by making it too dull?

That's because the snow carries soil and gravel, it's the solid particles that make it appear grey. Whereas the snow in the background is fresh from last night.

Fresh fallen snow, comprised of uncompressed crystals, is white; collapsed glacier moraines are old compacted snow with lots of rocks, gravel and sand mixed in. In certain cases, glacial ice can be black.
 
indeed much hats off top the rescue team working in an area where just standing is extremely hard and hope there will be survivors considering the longer it takes the more odds go against them.....
 
Is there a weblink to that statement please?
There is a video where he said that few bodies have been pulled out, on 3rd or 4th day.
It was posted in the thread, though he didn't number them.
 

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