JAMMU: An army mountaineering team, led by Lt Colonel Ranveer Jamwal from Jammu and Kashmir, scaled Mount Everest today.
“An Indian Army mountaineering team scaled Mount Everest today at 6:07 AM even though the weather conditions remained inclement,” army spokesman in Udhampur, Colonel S D Goswami said.
He said that the expedition to scale the world’s highest peak at 8,848 metres was launched after a hiatus of two years following the Nepal earthquake.
“The team led by Lt Col Jamwal, who is a reputed climber, was at the Everest base camp when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake stuck Nepal on April 25, last year”, Goswami said, adding it also had one Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and personnel of five other ranks. (AGENCIES)
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