For him, trek was really a 'Monsoon Survivor Mission'
Srikanth Balaji, an employee at Infosys, Chennai, should feel lucky, considering the fate of a few others, who like him had gone missing in the treacherous Western Ghats around Sakleshpur in Hassan district.In the monsoon of June 2006, Vasanth Kumar,Bhaskar Babu and Teju Murthy - three engineers from Bangalore and members of Bangalore Adventure Club - went missing in the forest ranges around Sakleshpur. Skeletal remains of two of them were found in February 2007, eight km from Sakleshpur, while the body of another was never found. Similarly, in 2012,... Published By: deccanherald - 5 days ago
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