A joint Bangladesh-India group of climbers have scaled the 7,135 metre high Mt. Nun in Punjab Himalaya under Jammu and Kashmir, Indian media report quoting a release.
Bangladeshi adventure club, ‘Keokradong’, based in Dhaka and the Mountaineering Association of Krishnanagar (MAK) from West Bengal and took part in the expedition, Indiatvnews reports quoting a news agency.
Quoting expedition leader Basanta Singha Roy, the report says the team summated on July 7.
Besides Singha Roy, who earlier climbed Mt. Everest and Kangchenhunga, other summiteers were Riffat Hasan of Bangladesh and Biswanath Saha, Rohit Majumder, Kaushik Biswas and Ashim Kumar Mondal of MAK.
The three-member team from Keokradong of Bangladesh also includes its group leader Muntasir Mamoon Imran and Salma Khatun. All the expedition members are in good health and will return to Kolkata soon via New Delhi, the report adds. This was second such joint mountaineering venture by MAK and Keokradong.
In 2006, they had jointly climbed the 6,187-metre Mt. Rubalkang in Garhwal Himalayas.
