Son treks into Bhutan’s snowy mountains in search of CM father

Guwahati: Even as over 10,000 people, including 3,000 Army personnel scour the treacherous terrain in search of the Pawan Hans chopper that went missing on Saturday morning with Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu onboard, his son Tashi Tsering Khandu has taken upon himself the task of marching into the eastern Himalayas to try his luck.
Tashi, 36, is leading a team of 100 young men, mostly from Tawang, and is currently on a foot-march deep inside the Sakteng and Merak areas of eastern Bhutan, looking for his father’s chopper. Tashi is the second of four sons and two daughters of the Chief Minister.
Merak and Sakteng are part of the Sakteng Wildlife Sanctuary — located at about 11,500 feet — created as a preserve of the legendary Yeti, also known as the Migoi in the local Brokpa language.
“Tashi went out on Sunday afternoon, first to Tashigang, about 70 km east of Tawang town, and then up into Merak and Sakteng, both difficult areas in terms of accessibility,” Takam Sanjay, Lok Sabha member from Arunachal Pradesh, told The Indian Express today. Sanjay, incidentally, is chief of the Crisis Management Cell (CMC) constituted in the wake of the CM’s chopper going missing, and is supervising operations from Dirang, the nearest civilian town to Sela Pass.
04/5/11 Samudra Gupta Kashyap /Indian Express

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