A 36-year-old woman from Kerala, who went missing during a trek in Kodagu hills, has been rescued after a four-day search operation.
G S Sharanya, an IT professional, was found deep inside the forest near Tadiyandamol, the highest peak in Kodagu district, around 5 pm on Sunday.
Sharanya had arrived alone from Kerala earlier in the week and joined a guided group of 15 trekkers for the climb to Tadiyandamol on Thursday. However, she became separated from the group during the descent and lost her way in the dense forest.
She contacted a friend and the homestay owner to inform them that she was lost before her phone battery died, triggering a coordinated search effort led by the Karnataka forest department and the police.
Additional teams were deployed on the instructions of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, bringing in about 40 more personnel, and thermal drone cameras were used to scan areas that were difficult to access on foot.
Sharanya described the sequence of events that led to her being stranded, saying she stayed on the hill, drank water from a nearby stream, and waited for rescue.
