Everest climber Tapi Mira and assistant Niku Dao went missing from a mountain very close to the Line of Actual Control separating the two countries.
Everest climber Tapi Mira and assistant Niku Dao went missing from a mountain very close to the Line of Actual Control separating the two countries.
Everest conqueror Tapi Mira and her colleague Niku Dao, missing from an expedition to Arunachal Pradesh’s highest snow-capped mountain since August, may be in captivity in China, fear family members.
The All Tagin Students’ Union (ATSU) has fueled similar apprehensions because the 6,900-metre Khyari Satam – the summit in East Kameng district has attempted to scale for the fourth time – is almost on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) between India and India. Tibetan region of China.
ATSU fulfills the aspirations of the Tagines, an ethnic community who were a mountaineering couple.
Members of the families of Mira and Dao, who were on a sit-in for the seventh day at Indira Gandhi Park in state capital Itanagar on Sunday, lamented the Arunachal Pradesh government’s “indifference” to their demand to bring them back, dead or alive.
He also said that the Pema Khandu government should contact the Center to begin communications with Beijing to find out whether Mira and Dao strayed into China or were captured by that country’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Gone.
“PLA may have kidnapped both of them from Khyari Satam, which is almost on the LAC. We appeal to the government to communicate with the Chinese if Mira and Dao are being held there.
Mra and Dao had set out for Khyari Satam along with seven porters from Sario-Saria, a village of Puroik community in Sawa circle of East Kameng district, on July 27. The porters returned but both the climbers went missing on 17 August.
A search and rescue operation organized by the district authorities with the help of armed forces had to be halted due to heavy rains. In October, Mira’s relatives and another team of three climbers brought back Mira and Dao’s belongings from Mount Khyari Satam, but no trace of both was found.
Villagers close to the LAC say it is not uncommon for locals, usually hunting or gathering medicinal plants, to wander into Chinese territory.
The last persons to go missing near Arunachal Pradesh’s border with China were Bethlem Tikro and Beingso Manyu in Anjou district on August 19. Another youth from the district, Miram Taron, was turned back by the PLA on January 27, more than a week later. China.