Rudraprayag District Disaster Management Officer Nandan Singh Rajwar said the body of Alok Biswas, 33, was brought to the Chardham helipad in Guptkashi in an IAF helicopter and sent to the district hospital.
He said Biswas and Vikram Majumdar, 38, were reported to be trapped in the Mahapanth glacier, six km above Kedarnath Dham, on October 9 during a trek.
When State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) personnel spotted them, Biswas was already dead. Majumdar was hospitalised after being brought to Kedarnath.
They were part of a 10-member group from West Bengal, who had embarked on the Kedarnath-Ransi trek nearly a week before. Eight members of the group came back leaving the two of them behind as they were too ill to walk. They informed the SDRF about their stranded teammates after which a rescue operation was launched.
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