1st ever army women's team scales Everest

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Indian Army:First ever army women's team scales Everest:-

New Delhi | June 02, 2005 9:40:53 PM IST

 

Captain Shipra Mazumdar, Captain Ashwini Pawar, Cadet Tshering Ladol

and Trainee Dechin Lhamo scaled the 8848-metre Mt. Everest on

Thursday morning. (PTI Photo)

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New Delhi, June 2 : A four-member group of the Indian Army Thursday

scaled Mt Everest to become the first ever army women's team to

conquer the world's highest peak.

 

The team comprising Captains Shipra Mazumdar and Ashwini Pawar, Cadet

Tshering Ladol and trainee Dechin Lhamo scaled the 8,848-metre peak

between 6.15 a.m. and 9.30 a.m., a statement said here.

 

The team reached the top from the Chinese side through the North Col

route.

 

The peak was also scaled by a support team of Major S.S. Shekhawat,

Subedar Surjeet Singh, Naik Subedar Jagat Singh, Havildar Topgey

Bhutia and Commando Kaman Singh.

 

With this feat, the Indian Army has furthered is reputation in the

international mountaineering fraternity, having scaled four mountains

of 8,000 feet or more height - Everest, Annapurna, Lhotse and

Kanchenjunga.

 

A British Army Officer, Lt Col C.K. Howard, led the first expedition

to Everest in 1921 from Tibet.

 

The Indian Army scaled the Everest for the first time in 2001 with a

team led by Col K. Kumar (AVSM). NEW DELHI: Indian Army's women

mountaineers created history by becoming the first women's expedition

to scale the Mt Everest.

 

Captain Shipra Mazumdar, Captain Ashwini Pawar, Cadet Tshering Ladol

and Trainee Dechin Lhamo scaled the 8848-metre high peak between 0615

and 0939 hours.

 

The peak was also summitted by five members of the support team --

Major S S Shekhawat, Subedar Surjeet Singh, Naib Subedar Jagat Singh,

Havildar Topgey Bhutia and Commando Kaman Singh.

 

The Indian Army's women mountaineering team scaled the world's

tallest peak from the Chinese side through the North Col Route, the

Army said in a release.

 

With this unprecedented feat, the Indian Army has scaled four eight

thou sanders in the last four years and Mt Everest has been climbed

thrice by the Army in the last five years.

 

The Army Women Everest Expedition was flagged off by Chief of Army

Staff Gen J J Singh on March 18 this year.

 

 

The Army Chief, who is a mountaineer himself, has congratulated the

team on its feat.

 

Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee congratulated the successful

women's mountaineering team of the Army, saying the success of the

expedition has brought laurels to the nation in general and Indian

Army in particular.

 

"The achievement will go a long way in infusing sense of enthusiasm

and spirit of teamwork in the youth of the nation. This feat will

provide impetus to the growth of adventure sports in the country," he

said.

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