Rescue workers in north India trekked for nearly 25 miles to save a Hindu monk, who was trapped in snow, while meditating in isolation in the mountains on Saturday (January 26). <br /><br />The monk, Swami Paraswanand, 45, had been meditating all alone in Kedarnath, one of the most sacred Hindu pilgrimage centres, in the Himalayas at Uttarkhand state. <br /><br />All the residents of Kedarnath, located at a height of 11,800 feet, vacate the town in the winter months due to harsh weather. <br /><br />But Swami Paraswanand stayed back to meditate in isolation. As the town of Kedarnath received record snow and plunged into sub-zero temperatures his health deteriorated. <br /><br />Believing that the monk was in trouble, devotees alerted Uttarkhand’s State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), which sent a team to extract the monk. <br /><br />Eight rescue workers trekked for over 23 miles in deep snow and brought back the monk on a stretcher. <br /><br />The tough monk, who managed to walk back some distance by himself, thanked the SDRF men for saving his life.
