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Indo-Bangla Jt expedition climbed Mt. Nun in Jammu and Kashmir

| | Jul 11, 2015, at 01:39 am
Kolkata, July 10 (IBNS): A joint climbing expedition by Mountaineering Association of Krishnanagar (MAK) from West Bengal and Dhaka, Bangladesh based adventure club “Keokradong” added another feather to their caps when they scaled 7135 metre high Mt. Nun in Punjab Himalaya under Jammu and Kashmir in July 7, according to a message received from the overall expedition leader Basanta Singha Roy on Friday.

Beside Singha Roy, who earlier climbed Mt. Everest and Kangchenhunga ,others who   reached the summit include Riffat Hasan of Bangladesh and Biswanath Saha, Rohit Majumder, Kaushik Biswas and Ashim Kumar Mondal of MAK.

The three –member team from “Keokradong”  of Bangladesh also include its group leader Muntasir Mamoon Imran and Salma Khatun.

All the expedition members are in good health and would be returning to Kolkata soon via New Delhi, the message said.

This was second such joint mountaineering venture by MAK and “Keokradong”.

Earlier in 2006, they had  jointly climbed 6187 metre Mt. Rubalkang in Garhwal Himalaya.

(Reporting by Manik Banerjee)

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