First School Team to set the record of scaling Mount Everest Lawrence School, Sanawar near Chandigarh, India: The School Team achieved the feat on May 21 when they summited Everest after a month-long expedition. The expedition comprised seven boys Ajay Sohal (16) and Prithvi Chahal (17) together climbed the summit first, next came Shubham Kaushik (16), Fateh Brar (16) and then Joneja and Guribadat Singh (17) with their sherpas, and three fathers as a support team. While they set off in a group of seven, Hakikat Grewal, developed a problem in his oxygen mask and couldn’t reach the summit, having to retreat to 27,600 ft. The boys underwent basic and advanced courses at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. During the training, besides climbing two major peaks in the Kanchenjunga area, the students were given high-altitude training in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir where temperatures normally hover 25 degrees Celsius below the freezing point. They also undertook a cycling expedition in the Thar desert, where they pedalled more than 1,000 km in nine days. This was followed by high-altitude training at over 6,000 metres in temperatures as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius in Ladakh.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:44:34 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015