Avalanche traps about 150 Pakistani soldiers

[Windjammer]

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. !!

 

[PakFalcon]

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 !

 

[Arsalan]

dont know what to post in this thread

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!


GOD PLEASE!!

 

[VCheng]

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.

 

[VCheng]

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.

 

[saiyan0321]

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.....

 

[Last Hope]

Exactly how much deep they need to dig to get out the corpses? Somehwere I read it was 75-80 meters. Can anyone confirm?

They need to dig about 23-25 meters to get to the men.

 

[VCheng]

Aaj 4 din hogaye Siachen ma baraf ma dabay Pak Army k ~130 Jawano abhi tk sirf 5 Jawano ki dead bodies hi nikal payi hn

AZ: Any confirmation? Your post is uncorroborated so far.

 

[Last Hope]

AZ: Any confirmation? Your post is uncorroborated so far.

Major General Athar Abbas said it.

 

[VCheng]

Major General Athar Abbas said it.

Is there a weblink to that statement please?

 

[Last Hope]

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.

 

[VelocuR]

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.

Proof it, show us link instead you speak yourself.

Weather dogs Pakistan avalanche search | News24 (no body found mention)
20 hours ago.

 

[VCheng]

Please take any arguments elsewhere and leave this thread dignified for its topic.

 

[Last Hope]

Proof it, show us link instead you speak yourself.

Weather dogs Pakistan avalanche search | News24 (no body found mention)
20 hours ago.

Raptor.... no hates in this thread atleast.
It was posted by PakArmyChannel on youtube, let me trace it back.

 

[Windjammer]

Please take any arguments elsewhere and leave this thread dignified for its topic.

There is no arguments here but i am not going to stand by and watch some idiot insult our soldiers.