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NCC Girls Mountaineering Expedition 2016 to Mt Everest
New Delhi, May 2 (IBNS) The 10-member girl's team from the National Cadet Corps participating in the Mt Everest expedition reached the base camp on April 21 after a hard trek of 156 kilometres from Jiri and are expected to summit the peak between May 15 and 25, the Defence Ministry announced on Monday.
The team is led by Col Gaurav Karki.
Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh had flagged off the expedition on Mar 9 this year. The team reached Kathmandu on Mar 31.
Prior to their departure, the girls attended a month-long winter training in the Siachen Glacier.
The first mountaineering course for NCC was conducted at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI), Darjeeling in 1961.
Mountaineering expedition as an adventure activity was introduced in NCC in 1970. Since then, NCC conducts two mountaineering expeditions every year, one each for boy and girl cadets.
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