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Army to launch Everest expedition
New
Delhi: The Army has selected 20 personnel for its mountaineering team
which will climb Mount Everest in April. The expedition will be led by
Lt Col IS Thapa of the Maratha Light Infantry and is likely to be flagged
off in the second half of March this year. The final selection for the
twenty members, of which 14 will be summiteers and six support staff,
was carried out after a fruitful training session at Siachen. The team
will attempt Mount Everest from the North, which is considered the most
difficult route to the summit. For this expedition, a total of 80 personnel
volunteered. From them, 45 were selected to undergo advanced mountaineering
course at the Western Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Manali. Thereafter,
the team carried out training by scaling Mount Bhagirthi-II (6510 M) and
Mount Mana (7273 M) in the Garhwal region. This is the fourth expedition
by the Army to Mount Everest. The last expedition which succeeded in summiting
Mount Everest in 2005 was an all women expedition. Prior to that, expeditions
were launched successfully in 2001 and 2003.
-Feb 13, 2007
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