Excelsior Correspondent
LEH, (Ladakh) Oct 30: On the second day of first Ladakh Literature Festival, among all other programmes and workshops the programme on ‘Scaling the Everest-In conversation with women Everesters from Ladakh including Tsering Lhadol, Tsering Angmo, Tashi Laskit, Stanzin Laskit and Rigzin Dolker’ held at Central Asian Museum today.
While talking to a room-packed of admirers and school children, Tsering Lhadol shared her early life, hurdles, opportunities, her life changing experience during the adventure of scaling the world’s highest peak made the audience listen with admiration and a feeling of pride.
Team of Tsering Angmo, Tashi Lashkit, Stanzin Lashkit and Rigzin Dolker shared their share of experiences and spoke about importance of family support and team effort and talked about their selection process, rigorous training of both physical and mental preparedness that helped them during their scaling of Mount Everest. Their life after scaling the worlds’ highest peak taught them to be patient and to never give up in something that we believe in.
It is important to mention here that while Tsering Lhadol is the first Ladakhi woman to climb Everest in 2005, the other four local girls were among the team of 10 NCC girls cadets who for the first time ever in the history of India that NCC girls successfully completed the expedition to Mount Everest in the year 2016.
During ‘Paper reading on different languages by Dr Jamyang Gyaltsan in Bhoti, Mohd Sadiq Hardassi in Balti, Nasir-ud-Din Khafi in Purgi, Mohd. Shafi Sagaar in Sheena and Gh. Murtaza Fazili in English’ held at Central Asian Museum today where the readers gave a detailed account about the importance of language.
In parallel with other programmes and workshops, ‘Pinhole camera workshop’ held at LAMO Centre that saw numbers of students of Government Girls Higher Secondary School were involved in an exercise in understanding the optical phenomenon that makes us and our cameras see the world.
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