Chandigarh, August 9
A mountaineering expedition to Mount Kun near Kargil organised by the Army to commemorate 75 years of Independence and 50 years of the victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan was flagged-in by Lt Gen PN Ananthanarayanan, General Officer Commanding, Rising Star Corps, at Yol Cantonment in Kangra district today.
Starting from Yol on July 6, the team had to brave inclement weather and the treacherous slopes of the massive Kun peak before successfully reaching the summit at an altitude of 23,219 feet.
Mount Kun is the second highest peak of the Nun-Kun mountain massif in the Eastern Himalayan range near the Suru valley. — TNS
Courtesy: Tribune News Service
