Mountaineer Chhanda Gayen, 2 others untraced

Prominent mountaineer Chhanda Gayen and two of her accompanying 'sherpas', who were attempting to climb the 8,505-metre-high Kangchenjunga West, known as Yalung Kang in Nepal, are reported to be missing.
Gayen, best known for being the first civilian women from West Bengal to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, went missing yesterday after being caught in an avalanche, as per information received here.
She annexed the 8,585-metre high Kanchenjunga Main, the third tallest peak on May 18 along with three other city climbers Tusi Das, Dipankar Ghosh and Rajib Bhattacharjee.
According to reports available Tusi, Rajiv and Dipankar decided to return to Base camp after the summit while, Chhanda along with two sherpas Dawa Wangchu Mingma Temba went on to climb the nearby Yalung Kang, also known as Kanchenjuga West.

While Dawa is from Darjeeling, Mingma hails from Nepal.
Talking to PTI Pasang Futar, a veteran Sherpa who lives in the same area where Dawa Sherpa stays, said "We received information from Kathmandu today that Dawa and Pemba along with Chhanda are missing after being caught in an avalanche beyond the Camp three area while coming down from the summit of Kanchenjunga West on Tuesday".
She had scaled the Mount Everest and Lohtse, the highest and fourth highest mountain in the world respectively, last year.