Dharamshala, July 21 -- A 13-member rescue team rescued a critically ill shepherd from the remote Bara Bhangal area of Kangra district, one of the remotest villages in Himachal Pradesh, after inclement weather made a helicopter rescue impossible.

A special mountaineering rescue team was constituted in Bharmour, Chamba, to carry out the rescue. The operation lasted more than 36 hours and was overseen by Pankaj Mahant, an instructor at the Mountaineering Institute in Bharmour.

Bharmour additional district magistrate (ADM) Vikas Sharma said the Chamba administration received information about the ailing shepherd from the Kangra administration on the night of July 17. "A helicopter rescue could not be carried out due to adverse weather cond...