The mission was launched from Arunachal Pradesh on October 16 final 12 months.
Guwahati:
A gaggle of 20 mountaineers have achieved the unbelievable feat of scaling all the very best factors within the nation to hoist the nationwide flag on prime of every peak. The climbers from the Nationwide Institute of Mountaineering and Journey Sports activities ( NIMAS) in Arunachal Pradesh climbed the tallest peaks in every Indian state as part of “Har Shikhar Tiranga” mission – a first-of-its-kind expedition.
The distinctive mission was part of the “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav”, the nationwide celebration commemorating the 75th 12 months of Indian independence and aligning with India’s G20 presidency.
Nonetheless, the daring expedition was not with out its challenges. The night time of October three was the scariest because the workforce which had climbed Mt Jongsong in Sikkim only a day earlier confronted near-certain dying after a sudden cloudburst result in flash floods. “We had hardly sighed in reduction of finishing our mission when round 10 pm the primary waters got here gushing in. Our workforce managed to get out with our stuff in 10 minutes, and being mountaineers, our first intuition took us up the hills. And that window of 10 minutes and working as much as the hills moderately than down saved us, I believe,” Colonel Ranveer Singh Jamwal, who led the workforce of mountaineers, informed information company PTI.
Traversing the size and breadth of the nation, the workforce confronted tough terrains in probably the most distant corners. “The expedition concerned travelling throughout the nation which got here with challenges like unavailability of transportation, poor roads in lots of distant areas, safety challenges in Maoist areas and likewise problem interacting with native communities as a result of language limitations,” he mentioned.
Risking their lives, the mountaineers additionally found that most of the highest peaks in states stay unnamed. The best level of the state of Punjab is an unnamed positioned within the Naina Devi Vary, they mentioned.
The mission, which was launched from Arunachal Pradesh on October 16 final 12 months, lined round 30,000 kms throughout all states of India turning into a one-of-its-kind journey within the historical past of the nation.