A team found the soldier’s body, still wearing a uniform with personal identification documents in the pocket, on August 22 -- more than four decades after he and 101 others died when an army transport aircraft crashed in February 1968.

Search comes to an end: The Himalayas are an icy graveyard for those who disappear in them. The Army carried out three search missions till 2009 to find the bodies of soldiers aboard the plane. File pic