[3][4] On the morning of 4 October 2022, a team of 41 climbers from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering attempting Draupadi Ka Danda II were hit by an avalanche a few hundred meters below the summit.

The bodies of 27 climbers were recovered during rescue operations, but two mountaineers could not be found.

[8] According to folklore, the Pandavas and their wife Draupadi, the central figures of the Hindu epic, Mahabharata had traversed through the area, also known as Devbhumi, (God's own land) on their way to heaven.

Just before being carried into the higher regions, Draupadi had planted her staff (similar to modern-day hiking sticks) into the ground.

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