Indian Mountaineers Hoist National Flag On Europe’s Highest Peak On I-Day
Bhopal: Indian mountaineers Bhawna Deharia and Ankita Gupta unfurled the National Flag atop Europe’s maximum mountain peak, Mount Elbrus, on Monday to mark India’s 76th Independence Day.
Eight mountaineers from distinct states had been a part of the expedition.
The institution scaled now no longer one, however mountain summits inside 24 hours. The institution efficaciously scaled the 5642-meter-tall Mount Elbrus West at 5:30 am on August 15 and Mount Elbrus East at 4:23 am on Tuesday. Mount Elbrus East is simply 12 meters smaller than Mount Elbrus West.
In the primary week of August, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel provided the National Flag to Ankita Gupta, a constable in Chhattisgarh police’s anti-Naxal cell, and needed her the excellent for her mountain climbing expedition.
Ankita Gupta had stated that she might unfurl the countrywide flag on Mount Elbrus to commemorate the seventy fifth anniversary of India’s Independence on behalf of the humans of Chhattisgarh
30-year-antique Bhawna Dehariya From Madhya Pradesh, mom of a 15-month-antique daughter, has scaled 4 different peaks in different countries. These consist of the world’s maximum mountain peak, Mount Everest, on May 22, 2019; Africa’s tallest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, at the competition of Diwali in 2019; South America’s tallest peak, Aconcagua, in December 2019; and Australia’s maximum peak, Mount Kosciuszko, at the competition of Holi in 2020. She is on a “Seven Summits Quest” to climb the best peaks of all seven continents and unfurl the countrywide flag atop every peak.
With this conquest beneathneath their belt, the crew is possibly the primary institution of Indian mountaineers to have efficaciously scaled mountain summits of Europe inside 24 hours.