From the archive record
As the workers are rescued and taken away from the tunnel site after over a month in incarceration, this night time scene unfolded. Building 6 and 8 lane highways into the Himalaya will come at a great cost. The Silkiayara tunnel blockage was just one of many hundreds of such incidents that will signal a titanic shift in our past sensible approach in respecting the Himalayan mountains. We cannot play god and build massive road infrastructure in such delicate geology. Media and ambulances lined up at the rescue operation site at Silkiyara Bend tunnel in Barkot This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest HD and 4K collection from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot o