VIDEO: ITBP scales 24,131 feet Mount Abi Gamin peak in Uttarakhand

New Delhi: An Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) team of mountaineers scaled the 24,131 feet Mount Abi Gamin peak on the Sino-Indian border on June 2, border guarding force said on Sunday.

The team reached the base camp on June 4. This ITBP Northern Frontier mountaineering expedition was launched on May 9 from Dehradun.

The team was led by Deputy Commandant Kuldeep Kumar of the 2nd Battalion ITBP. As many as 14 members of the team and 4 High Altitude Sherpas scaled the peak today on June 2 at 1230 hrs, the ITBP said.

Abi Gamin is located in the central Himalayas at the culminating point of the Zaskar Range. It is situated on the watershed of the upper Alaknanda and Dhauli rivers between the famous Mana and Niti passes on the Indo-Tibetan border.

Abi Gamin is the second highest peak in the immediate region, after Kamet. It is also one of the fifteen seven thousand meter peaks of Uttarakhand, and as such it is a significant peak.

The ITBP is known to have the rare distinction of having successfully completed more than 230 mountaineering expeditions over the years including the mighty Mount Everest for four times, the ITBP said in a statement.

Raised in 1962, the Force started scaling the Himalayan peaks in the late 1960s and at times, its formidable mountaineer’s teams scaled 9 peaks in a single calendar year. It scaled many unclimbed peaks in the high himalayas, the statement added. (UNI)