Summary:
The expedition to Mt Everest will be flagged off by director general BSF KK Sharma from Delhi on March 23. The team will undertake its second expedition to the world’s highest peak in March this year.The team, which includes three officers, has qualified mountaineers who scaled Mt Everest in 2006. “We had set up pre-expedition training camps here in 2006 and 2008 for expeditions to Mt Everest and Mt Kanchenjunga respectively and had achieved success in our endeavours. MANALI: A 24-member Border Security Force ( BSF ) team, which climbed Mt Everest in 2006, is preparing for its second expedition and has been training in Solang valley of Manali for over a month now. The expedition is led by assistant commandant Padam Shri Lovraj Singh, who has scaled the mountain peak for record six times..