When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Ignoring their personal safety, braving fuel supply constraints and tackling the elements, personnel of India's uniformed forces - some of whom have summited Mount Everest - have been racing against time to save lives in devastation-hit Uttarakhand, driven by a sense of purpose and motivated by the hope in the eyes of the hapless survivors.
All this has seen some 70,000 people being rescued till Saturday evening but 20,000 are still missing. The official toll in the Himalayan tsunami that has ravaged large parts of the state was 557 till Saturday but is likely to go up as full scale of tragedy unfolds.
Personnel of the Indian Army, the Indian Air Force (IAF), ITBP, Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and NDRF have been toiling in the Badrinath and Kedarnath regions and some other upper reaches of the mountainous state to rescue thousands of pilgrims stranded due to flash floods that have hit the area.
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