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| Tawi Trekkers J&K to honour 10 distinguished Everesters of Jammu on Oct 2 | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, June 26: Tawi Trekkers J&K’S function to honour 10 distinguished Everesters of Jammu which was postponed earlier due to pandemic shall now be organized on the 40th foundation day of the club on 2nd October, 2021. It was decided in a virtual meeting of the hardcore members held under the chairmanship of Prof. Lalit Magotra, a founder member and advisor of the club.
Prominent among others who attended the crucial meeting included Patrons of the club Ashwani Sharma, former MLA and Rahul Sharma, Chairman Sprawling Buds ICSE School, Jammu; Co Chairman Zorawar Singh Jamwal, President Ram Khajuria, Sr. Vice President Rajesh Gupta, Vice President Mridhu Padha, General Secretary Shawetica Khajuria, legal Advisor Prem Sadotra, Vivek Chauhan, Sumit Khajuria, Sushil Singh and Sonam Sidharth.
Since the club intends to organize the felicitation function on a grand scale it was decided to wait and watch the impact of Corona virus for another three months when hopefully the country would get rid of the pandemic and we will be able to celebrate the occasion in a befitting manner on the 40th foundation day of the club.
It may be mentioned that as most of the past as well as the current mountaineers of Jammu who have scaled the Everest are almost unknown to their own people of Jammu, the purpose of honoring these heroes in a function is to make the present generation aware of their outstanding achievements and contribution to the promotion of mountaineering in the country and the laurels they have brought to Jammu.
Whereas C. P Vohra who retired as Director General Geological Survey of India and now lives in United States, was the first mountaineer of Jammu to climb Everest in the year 1965, the second Everester of Jammu Rajiv Sharma who retired as Deputy Director of Atal Behari Bajpai Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports Manali, scaled Everest in 1993, 28 years after C P Vohra’s grand feat.
Similarly, it was after a gap of 15 years that Ram Singh now inspector in J&K Police scaled Everest in 2008. Col. Ranbir Singh Jamwal climbed Everest thrice n 2012, 2013 and 2016 and went on to scale the highest peaks of all the continents. This was a rare feat which requires to be recognized and honored by whole of the country, especially the people of Jammu, he being Son of the soil.
Similarly, the year 2017 witnessed an Everest boom when 3 climbers of Jammu Sandeep Singh, Nirmal Kumar and Rahul Jarangal were successful in scaling the Everest. Then Sangeeta Bahl scaled Everest in 2018 and became the oldest Indian woman to scale Everest at the age of 53 years. She also belongs to Jammu. In between there were two defense personnel from Jammu who also scaled Everest. And finally, we have Phalail Singh from J&K Police who scaled Everest in 2019. All these significant achievements of the sons and daughter of the soil needs to be brought to the knowledge of the general public of Jammu so that it acts as source of inspiration for the younger generation to follow in their footsteps. |
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