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Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar, who helped India secure Siachen glacier, passes away ANI / Updated: Jan 1, 2021, 09:15 IST Narendra 'Bull' Kumar, 87, who helped India secure the Siachen Glacier, passed away on Thursday at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi due to age-related illness. Col Kumar, who was awarded the Kirti Chakra, Padma Shri, Arjun award and the McGregor medal, carried out multiple expeditions in the Siachen glacier area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Based mainly on his reconnaissance reports, the Indian Army went ahead with the mission to occupy the Sia...

Col Narendra ''Bull'' Kumar, who helped India secure Siachen glacier, passes away It was he who first detected the cartographic aggression of Pakistan in the Siachen glacier area. Share Updated: Jan 1, 2021, 09:21 AM IST Ace mountaineer Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar, 87, who helped India secure the Siachen Glacier, passed away on Thursday at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi due to age-related illness. Col Kumar, who was awarded the Kirti Chakra, Padma Shri, Arjun Award, and the McGregor medal, carried out multiple expeditions in the Siachen glacier area in the late 1...

Ace mountaineer Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar passes away Twitter Ace mountaineer Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar, 87, who helped India secure the Siachen Glacier, passed away on Thursday at the Army Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi due to age-related illness. Col Kumar, who was awarded the Kirti Chakra, Padma Shri, Arjun Award and the McGregor medal, carried out multiple expeditions in the Siachen glacier area in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Based mainly on his reconnaissance reports, the Indian Army went ahead with the mission to occupy the Siachen heights under the Operation M...

For Clarence “Bud” Anderson, Charles Yeager was a nearly lifelong best friend and colleague. The two men are storied names in Air Force and aviation history, sharing careers which extended from World War II, through test piloting, to the Vietnam War and beyond. Yeager, of course, was the first person to travel faster than the speed of sound, flying the rocket-powered Bell X-1 above what’s now Edwards Air Force Base. He went on to fly everything from a captured MiG fighter jet to experimental lifting bodies, and led a B-57 Canberra bomber squadron over Vietnam before eventually ...

Whoa, that thing is split. incredible. >> here we are. >> welcome to alps 101. where my professor, sebastian, is holding forth in a most amazing classroom. >> i was talking to you about this valley on our right. it's called a taconez glacier. on the left side, and where they both meet, this is the junction. and on the 9th of august 1786, two guys from chamonix, they summited mount blanc for the first time using this route here