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ABP News Bureau | 09 Jul 2019 09:03 AM (IST)
The 11-member Indo Tibetan Border Police mountain rescue team that carried out one of the world's most difficult retrieval operations to recover bodies of seven foreign mountaineers, included men who have scaled Mount Everest.
The ITBP team recovered the bodies of the foreign mountaineers near an unnamed peak near Nanda Devi East on June 23, over a month after they went missing.
"Operation Daredevil" to bring back bodies of the seven climbers was executed at 21,000 feet by ITBP specialists.
Talking to IANS, team leader Ratan Singh Sonal, the second in command said, "I have climbed Mount Everest twice. Once in 2009 and again in 2019. I have also scaled the Dhaulagiri in 2016."
The ITBP team recovered the bodies of the foreign mountaineers near an unnamed peak near Nanda Devi East on June 23, over a month after they went missing.
"Operation Daredevil" to bring back bodies of the seven climbers was executed at 21,000 feet by ITBP specialists.
Talking to IANS, team leader Ratan Singh Sonal, the second in command said, "I have climbed Mount Everest twice. Once in 2009 and again in 2019. I have also scaled the Dhaulagiri in 2016."