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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu, who was missing since March 24 while climbing the mountains between Chile and Argentina, has been found dead, officials said last week.
"Mountains retained its favourite child... R.I.P Malli Mastan Babu," read an announcement on Facebook page 'Rescue Malli Mastan Babu' created by his friends and well-wishers.
The body of the 40-year-old mountaineer, who hailed from Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, was found at a height of 6,000 feet in the Ceros mountains, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.
She informed him that the central government would bring back the body to Chennai, the nearest airport to his village.
The mountaineer left home for the trip on December 16, 2014, and began the expedition from the Argentine side on March 24.
He was scheduled to return to the base camp the next day but was apparently trapped by bad weather.
All efforts by the family, friends and fellow mountaineers to contact him proved futile.
The top mountaineer had achieved the feat of becoming the "fastest seven summiteer" in the world (172 days in 2006, during which he climbed seven summits on seven days of the week in each calendar month).
He was also the first Indian to summit Mt. Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica and the first person from Andhra Pradesh to scale the Everest.
He was an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, IIM-Kolkata, NIT-Jamshedpur and Sainik School Korukonda.
Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu, who was missing since March 24 while climbing the mountains between Chile and Argentina, has been found dead, officials said last week.
"Mountains retained its favourite child... R.I.P Malli Mastan Babu," read an announcement on Facebook page 'Rescue Malli...
Indian mountaineer Malli Mastan Babu, who was missing since March 24 while climbing the mountains between Chile and Argentina, has been found dead, officials said last week.
"Mountains retained its favourite child... R.I.P Malli Mastan Babu," read an announcement on Facebook page 'Rescue Malli Mastan Babu' created by his friends and well-wishers.
The body of the 40-year-old mountaineer, who hailed from Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, was found at a height of 6,000 feet in the Ceros mountains, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj informed Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu.
She informed him that the central government would bring back the body to Chennai, the nearest airport to his village.
The mountaineer left home for the trip on December 16, 2014, and began the expedition from the Argentine side on March 24.
He was scheduled to return to the base camp the next day but was apparently trapped by bad weather.
All efforts by the family, friends and fellow mountaineers to contact him proved futile.
The top mountaineer had achieved the feat of becoming the "fastest seven summiteer" in the world (172 days in 2006, during which he climbed seven summits on seven days of the week in each calendar month).
He was also the first Indian to summit Mt. Vinson Massif, the tallest peak in Antarctica and the first person from Andhra Pradesh to scale the Everest.
He was an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, IIM-Kolkata, NIT-Jamshedpur and Sainik School Korukonda.
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