From the archive record
As the team moves upward to occupy camp 3 during The Everest expedition 2001 the unxepected happens. The team is hit by snow blizzard at the height of 24000 feet. The wind speed touches approximately 100 kms per hour. Indian Army added another feather to its cap in May 2001, when its mountaineers successfully scaled Mount Everest and put a record eight members and seven Sherpas on the summit. This is the largest number of summiteers on Mount Everest in an Indian expedition. The mighty mountain ranges of the Himalayas have, over the centuries, inspired not only man's imagination and spiritual quest, but also his spirit of adventure. Mount Everest, the tallest of the peaks of the Himalayas as also the whole world, stood in its unattainable isolation for thousands of years, till Tenzing Norga