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New Delhi: Authorities in Nepal are investigating the case of two Indian mountaineers who allegedly faked their Mount Everest summit in 2016. The duo Narender Singh Yadav and Seema Rani Goswami were part of a 15-member international team managed by the Seven Summit Treks in Nepal.
Yadav’s name was also in the list of awardees for the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award by the Indian government last year. But his name was withheld following claims by some veteran mountaineers that the images posted by him were doctored.
“We formed an investigative committee two months ago. A report will soon be presented. We have not taken any decision yet and will be able to comment only when the report is out,” Pradip Kumar Koirala, a Nepal tourism official, told ThePrint over phone.
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NEW DELHI: Colonel Narendra Kumar, the man who scaled the Mt Everest for Indian Army, breathed his last in Delhi on Thursday. Kumar was commissioned from Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in the Kumaon Regiment in 1953.
Colonel Aman Anand, Spokesperson, Indian Army said, “He was mountaineer par excellence, he was the first Indian to climb Mt Nanda Devi. He climbed the Mt Everest in 1965, Mt Blanc( highest peak in the Alps)and later Mt Kangchenchanga( from the toughest NE spur). He climbed up all these peaks despite losing four toes due to frostbite in earlier expeditions.”
In 1981 Colonel Kumar played a stellar role as a member of the Antarctica Task Force. If it was not for his expeditions to Siachen Glacier and Saltoro Range as Commandant of the High Altitude Warfare School , Pakistan would have annexed Siachen Glacier.