As the rotten smell of decomposed bodies, animal carcasses and floating wood makes it difficult for rescuers to remove the dead buried under mounds of rubble in Kedarnath Valley, the Uttarakhand government is planning to fumigate the area with herbal spray. This should make it easier for airdropped men to dig out the bodies and cremate them, the state’s health minister said.

Scented solution: The government plans to fumigate the entire 14-km stretch that leads to the Kedarnath shrine with herbal spray