The man, who had gone on a short hike to the foot of the Dhauladhar mountain range in northern India with another British tourist, fell during his descent on Sunday evening and was taken down the mountain on a stretcher.
The Himachal Pradesh state disaster response force said that within half an hour of the call for rescue at 6pm on Sunday, a team of 10 rescue personnel began trekking up the mountain from Thathri, a nearby town.
The two men had arrived in the town of Dharamshala on Friday and left on Sunday for a trek from Dharamkot to Triund, a well-known trail of about 6km (3.7 miles) which enables hikers to reach an altitude of just under 3,000 metres above sea level in one day.
“The team began their trek from Thathri Power Project and, upon reaching Dritto cafe, was informed that the victims were located 4km further uphill in extremely difficult terrain,” the force said on Tuesday.
The rough terrain and repeated crossings of a rivulet made progress down the mountain extremely slow, and the team took nearly two hours to cover just 100 metres, according to the Tribune.
