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Mountaineers across country pay tribute to India's first Everest climb 60 years ago

Mountaineers across country pay tribute to India's first Everest climb 60 years ago
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Kolkata, May 20 (UNI) Adventurers and expeditionsists across the country on Tuesday paid glowing tributes to India's first successful Everest expedition.
On this day exactly 60 years ago, a record 10 climbers unfurled the national tri-colour atop the world's tallest peak 8849 meters Mount Everest in Nepal.
" Today marks a historic milestone in Indian mountaineering. It's been 60 years since Captain Avatar Singh Cheema and Nawang Gombu, part of the Indian Everest Expedition led by (then) Captain M.S. Kohli, proudly unfurled the Indian flag on the summit of Mount Everest on May 20, 1965," Indian Mountaineering Foundation ( East Zone) Chairman Debraj Dutta said in a statement.

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