Reckong-Peo, July 7
The soldiers of the 4th Assam Regiment rescued a injured woman mountaineer who scaled Lamkhaga Pass in Kinnuar district on Thursday. Vimla Devi Divasak, a woman mountaineer of an 11-member women’s mountaineering team, who went out to conquer the skyscraper cliff and passes of the Trans-Himalaya, was injured due to slipping on the Lamkhaga Pass last day.
As soon as this information was received by the unit -4 Assam Regiment of Tri Peak Himalaya, immediately a team of army personnel started the rescue operation and the elderly mountaineer woman was rescued and given first aid at nearest army hospital and alter at Rekong-Peo she admitted in the regional hospital.
According to the information received from the army at the district headquarters, a team of women mountaineers under the leadership of Padmashree Bichendri Pal, the country’s first woman to scale Mount Everest, had left for Kinnaur district, crossing the Lamkhaga pass from Harshal in Uttarkashi. The team entered the Lamkhaga Pass located in the state on July 5, 2022. However, during this hike, a mountaineer woman Vimala Devi Divasak got injured near Lamkhaga Pass.
As soon as the information was received, the soldiers of the 4- Assam Regiment, despite the adverse weather and inhospitable geographical conditions, rescued the injured mountaineer woman with understanding.
It is worth mentioning that on March 12, 2022, under the Fit India Mission of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a team of 11 mountaineering women who have crossed the age of 50 years, under the leadership of Padma Bichendri Pal for mountaineering from Pangsau to Tiger Hill located on the Indo-Myanmar border.
This team will reach Tiger Hill in 5 months after crossing a distance of 5000 km and 37 mountain passes through Arunachal, Assam, West Bengal, Sikkim, Uttarakhand and Himachal.
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