To the top of the world and back

Subedar C N Bodh has become the only Indian to have successfully climbed six of the 14 highest peaks in the world, and he just can't stop

Subedar C N Bodh has become the only Indian to have successfully climbed six of the 14 highest peaks in the world, and he just can't stop

"Ask a mountaineer to climb a peak and he will never ask for anything else. People often ask me what I am planning to do after conquering six of the highest mountains in the world.

And my reply is always climb another one," said Subedar C N Bodh of the Indian Army, who has become the only Indian to have climbed six of the 14 highest peaks in the world.



Bodh started climbing in 1993, but his claim to fame was the summit of Mount Everest in 2001. After that he went on to conquer all the peaks in India, Tibet and Nepal.

"Mountains are beautiful and I feel at home among them," he said.

Bodh was part of an Indian Army mountaineering team that unfurled the Tricolour atop Mount Dhaulagiri the seventh highest peak in the world on May 8. "Any peak above 8,000 metres is considered a challenge to climb.
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We trained for almost a year in Siachen for this feat," said the team leader Lieutenant Colonel M S Chauhan.

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