DHUBRI: Two Assamese youths- Bhaskar Baruah and Jayanta Nath -climbed the third highest mountain peak in the world, Mt. Kanchenjunga (8,586 metres) on Thursday morning The duo, soon after reaching the peak at 7.15 am, unfurled Indian Tricolor, Assam Mountaineering Association’s Expedition Flag and Assamese phulam gamosa at the top of this magnificent mountain.
This is for the first time in the entire northeast India that an organization has organized and successfully scaled the toughest peak in the world, Mt. Kanchenjunga, with the financial support of the State Government.
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is the Chef-de-Mission of this mega expedition and the Department of Sports and Youth Welfare. The Government of Assam is the sponsoring authority of the same. Earlier, in an attempt to scale the peak on May 18, team members Bhaskar Baruah, Jayanta Nath. Kaushik Das and Sekhar Bordoloi reached up to a height of 8,416 metres, which is just 170 metres below the summit. But due to some technical issues, they were compelled to abandon their climbing at the last stage.
A source in Assam Mountaineering informed that for Mount Kanchenjunga Expedition 2023, the team left Guwahati on April 11, 2023. At Guwahati railway station, the team was given farewell by a large gathering comprising members and well-wishers of Assam Mountaineering Association, eminent personalities and journalists.
President of India Droupadi Murmu had flagged-off this expedition at State Guest House, Koinadhara April 7, 2023 by handing over an ice-axe baton fitted with the Indian Tricolour and Expedition Flag to the expedition leader in presence of the Governor of Assam, Gulab Chand Kataria and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, along with senior officials of the Assam Government, President’s Secretariat and office bearers of AMA Mount Kanchenjunga Expedition 2023 Organizing Committee, among others.
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