Dehradun, June 7 -- Uttarkashi district administration deployed a helicopter on Sunday to search for 24-year-old woman trekker from Ramnagar in Uttarakhand's Nainital district who went missing while camping on a meadow trek in Uttarkashi on May 29.

A multi-agency search operation involving the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), forest, police and revenue departments was launched on May 31 to trace the woman.

Later, the Indian Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) joined them.

On Saturday, a team from the Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) also started searching for the woman.

The missing woman, Babita Pandey, an MBA student and Ramnagar resident, travelled to Uttar...