Drone video of Kerala trekker’s rescue warms hearts online | Trending News,The Indian Express

Cherattil Babu, a newspaper vendor, was hoisted to safety by the personnel of the Indian Army and the National Disaster Response Force , trained in mountaineering, using a rope.

The drone footage shows one of the personnel giving a water bottle to the man and gently tapping his head in reassurance.

Babu and two of his friends started climbing the 1,000-feet-high Kurumbachi hill near their village of Cheradu in Malampuzha on Monday.

While rescue efforts began with volunteers and disaster personnel to save the man, it didn’t yield any result.

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