Scaling the heights. literally
22 May 2013 5:32 PM GMT
The highest vertical point in terra firma has never been off the news from the time the trecherous peaks were scaled first in 1953. Recent expeditions over the last two days this month has added names to the list of bravehearts.
On 20 May around 8:30, Loveraj Singh Dharmshaktu started for Mount Everest from his summit camp and after traipsing whole night, around six in the morning, he was upon Everest. He is the team leader of Eco Everest Expedition that had 10 people including six Indians of whom three are women.
Dharmashaktu has climbed the Everest five times before this, the first being in 1998.
Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player, who had lost her right leg after thrown off a moving train by some hoodlums, created history on Tuesday by being a part of that team. The expedition is harping on cleaning and bringing back garbage and human waste en route to Everest. She is the first amputee to have scaled Everest.
Ujjwal Roy, officer-incharge of the Shyampukur police station, scaled the highest peak, Mount Everest, at about 6.35 am on 20 May as well. Fifty-year-old Roy reached the Mount Everest summit at 8,848 metres (29,028 feet), along with Debdas Nandy, both members of the Snout Adventurers’ Association.
‘Today’s a great day for Kolkata Police. I’m glad to hear that Roy reached the top of the world a few minutes ago. We’re waiting to give Roy and his team a big felicitation,’ said Surajit Kar Purokayastha, commissioner of Kolkata Police, a few minutes after Roy conquered the Mt Everest.
But there are more celebrations in order - with the hoisting of the Tricolour and the school flag on the highest peak of the Everest, a seven-member team of students of The Lawrence School, Sanawar, has set a new record of being the youngest team to scale the Everest on Tuesday.
On 20 May around 8:30, Loveraj Singh Dharmshaktu started for Mount Everest from his summit camp and after traipsing whole night, around six in the morning, he was upon Everest. He is the team leader of Eco Everest Expedition that had 10 people including six Indians of whom three are women.
Dharmashaktu has climbed the Everest five times before this, the first being in 1998.
Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player, who had lost her right leg after thrown off a moving train by some hoodlums, created history on Tuesday by being a part of that team. The expedition is harping on cleaning and bringing back garbage and human waste en route to Everest. She is the first amputee to have scaled Everest.
Ujjwal Roy, officer-incharge of the Shyampukur police station, scaled the highest peak, Mount Everest, at about 6.35 am on 20 May as well. Fifty-year-old Roy reached the Mount Everest summit at 8,848 metres (29,028 feet), along with Debdas Nandy, both members of the Snout Adventurers’ Association.
‘Today’s a great day for Kolkata Police. I’m glad to hear that Roy reached the top of the world a few minutes ago. We’re waiting to give Roy and his team a big felicitation,’ said Surajit Kar Purokayastha, commissioner of Kolkata Police, a few minutes after Roy conquered the Mt Everest.
But there are more celebrations in order - with the hoisting of the Tricolour and the school flag on the highest peak of the Everest, a seven-member team of students of The Lawrence School, Sanawar, has set a new record of being the youngest team to scale the Everest on Tuesday.
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