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Indian school team to bid for Everest world
record
Wednesday February 06, 2013 07:56:50 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh:
A six-student team will make a bid for a world record to become
the first school team to scale Mt. Everest, the highest peak in
the world.
Supported by leading outdoor adventure gear brand Woodland, the
school team will try to scale the 8,848-metre high peak in May
this year to mark the 60 years of Everest treks. The expedition
will be flagged off from India April 5.
The young team members, all of whom are from the Lawrence School
at Sanawar in Kasauli hills of Himachal Pradesh, are Hakikat Singh
Grewal, Guribadat Singh, Prithvi Singh, Ajay Sohal, Shubham and
Fateh Singh. Four of them are from Punjab and one each from Delhi
and Himachal Pradesh.
Woodland managing director Harkirat Singh said the team members
had undergone strenuous high-altitude and endurance training in
the last few months.
"The Teens Tame Everest is a step ahead of our aim of promoting
outdoors in the country. This one is very special to us since we
intend to send our youngest ambassadors on an expedition to Mt.
Everest for a world record. We are very delighted to back this
historic project," Harkirat Singh told media persons here Tuesday.
Expedition leader, Col. Neeraj Rana said: "The thought of sending
the world's first school team was very inspiring yet challenging.
The thought of the project came alive some seven months back and
we started working backwards on a fast pace to have a great team
like this."
The team, comprising all teenagers, has undergone a five-month
extensive training (September 2012 to January 2013) in all formats
of stamina build-up, fitness as well as adventure sports to equip
them to cope up with the hard tenure at Mt. Everest, Rana said.
This included high-altitude training at the Himalayan
Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling, to a 1,000-km cycling
campaign in Thar desert.
After a 10-day winter-cum-high altitude acclimatisation at
Khardung-La in Ladakh, the team members will take their annual
examinations in school in March before setting out for the Everest
expedition.
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