Nehru Institute of Mountaineering is situated in Uttarkashi.
The responsibilities of a group leader are:
Help others in carrying their bags.
Let the group go ahead and keep to the last.
Help those who cannot climb properly.
Find a good place to stop and rest.
Look after those who are not well.
Arrange food for the group.
Vitamin C, Iron tablets and hot chocolate milk were taken in breakfast to get strength and to keep body warm.
Some of the mountaineering equipment is sling, pitons, hunter shoes, sleeping bags, etc.
To cross the river, a thick rope was tied across the river, from one bank to the other. And the ropes were tightly fixed at pegs or pitons.
Ropes and slings were used to carry persons across the river.
The rucksacks of rock climbers are filled with food packets, water bottle, rope, hook, plastic sheets, diary, torch, towel, soap, windcheater, whistle, glucose, jiggery, chana, and some other snacks.
While rock climbing, one should not bend, keep our back straight and keep the body at 90 degree.
While climbing down the mountain, one has to lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside, this is known as ‘rapling’.
Bachhendri Pal became the first Indian woman and fifth woman in the world to reach Mount Everest.
Bachhendri grew up in Nakuri village in the Garhwal area of Uttarakhand.
Later, she joined Nehru Institute of Mountaineering where Brigadier Gyan Singh was her guide.
In 1984, she was selected as a team member to climb the Mount Everest.
It was seven minutes past one o’clock in the afternoon of 23th May when Bachhendri Pal stepped onto the peak of 8900 metre high Mount Everest also called Sagarmatha in Nepal.
