Let us compliment Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu for surmounting several obstacles & reaching the peak of Mt Everest not once but 6 times!!
[h=1]Nepal honours Indian who climbed Everest for record 6 times[/h] PTI Kathmandu:, June 09, 2017 17:21 IST
Nepal has felicitated an Indian who became the first person from the country to summit Mount Everest for a record six times.
Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu, a Padma Shri recipient who hails from Uttarakhand, was honoured at a function organised by Adventure Sports Tourism Society in Lalitpur Metropolitan City near here on Thursday.
Mr. Dharmashaktu was appointed a Tourism Ambassador of Nepal to north India during the function.
The veteran mountaineer climbed the 8,848-metre high mountain peak, the world’s tallest, for the sixth time on May 27, according to Nepal’s Tourism Department.
Mr. Dharmashaktu, who works with India’s border-guarding force —— Border Security Force, received a felicitation letter from the Department of Tourism and Adventure Sports Tourism Society.
He first scaled Mount Everest, locally known as Sagarmatha, in 1998 and received India’s prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2003.
More than 4,000 people have so far climbed Mount Everest.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...ord-6-times/article18924024.ece?homepage=true
[h=1]Nepal honours Indian who climbed Everest for record 6 times[/h] PTI Kathmandu:, June 09, 2017 17:21 IST
Nepal has felicitated an Indian who became the first person from the country to summit Mount Everest for a record six times.
Love Raj Singh Dharmashaktu, a Padma Shri recipient who hails from Uttarakhand, was honoured at a function organised by Adventure Sports Tourism Society in Lalitpur Metropolitan City near here on Thursday.
Mr. Dharmashaktu was appointed a Tourism Ambassador of Nepal to north India during the function.
The veteran mountaineer climbed the 8,848-metre high mountain peak, the world’s tallest, for the sixth time on May 27, according to Nepal’s Tourism Department.
Mr. Dharmashaktu, who works with India’s border-guarding force —— Border Security Force, received a felicitation letter from the Department of Tourism and Adventure Sports Tourism Society.
He first scaled Mount Everest, locally known as Sagarmatha, in 1998 and received India’s prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2003.
More than 4,000 people have so far climbed Mount Everest.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...ord-6-times/article18924024.ece?homepage=true
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