Anxiety grows as prominent Mumbai doctor-mountaineer and group of 61 go missing
Prominent Mumbai doctor-mountaineer Milind Chitley and 60 others remain untraceable after floods hit the Nepal-Tibet route, leaving families seeking updates
Anxious families and friends of a prominent Mumbai doctor and mountaineer, Dr Milind P Chitley, are desperately awaiting updates after he and 61 fellow Indian travelers were reported missing following a flash flood in Nepal. Chitley, a family physician and co-founder of Hills & Trails trekking agency, was leading a group of trekkers from Mumbai, Pune and other states when the disaster struck.
Five of the missing individuals are doctors, including Chitley's wife Megha, a pathologist, and Dr Anand Deshpande, head of the blood bank at Hinduja Hospital. Nepalese authorities have initiated a multi-agency search and rescue operation, but over 1,300 people remain unaccounted for. Friends and family of the missing are piecing together the last known locations of the group, with one uncle forming a WhatsApp group to help locate his nephew and others.
Dr Chitley, a veteran mountaineer with decades of experience in the Himalayas, has faced high-altitude medical emergencies and rescued climbers suffering from conditions like pulmonary edema and hypothermia.
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