SOLDIER MOUNTAINEER : the colonel who got Siachen Glacier for India / colonel N Kumar with colonel N N Bhatia.
Language: English Publication details: Delhi Vij Books 2016/01/01Edition: 1Description: 254ISBN:- 9789385563553 (hardback)
- 9385563556 (hardback)
- 9789385563560 (hardback)
- 9385563564 (hardback)
- 796.522092 KUM
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Lending | Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks | Non-fiction | 796.522092 KUM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | E190773 |
Summary:
The author Colonel N N Bhatia along with inputs from Col Bull himself has endeavored to put across a compelling and absorbing account of the life and times of Narinder Kumar who took Indian mountaineering and mountaineering in the army to sublime heights.
Contents: WHY THIS BOOK?; Foreword; Preface; GENESIS; RAFTING --
HIS FORTE; IMA --
CREME DE LA CRÈME!; WINTER WARFARE SCHOOL; BULL KUMAR'S FIRST EXPEDITION --
TRISHUL; EVEREST --
1960; BARAHOTI --
1961; NILKANTHA --
1961; NANDA DEVI --
1964; EVEREST AGAIN --
1965; CHOMOLHARI --
1970; NATIONAL SKI SCHOOL; INDUS BOAT EXPEDITION --
1975; TRISHUL SKI EXPEDITION --
1976; KANCHENJUNGA --
1977; TERAM KANGRI- 1978; SIACHEN --
1981; KAMET --
1983; SIACHEN DISPUTE: India and Pakistan's glacial fight; Notorious Junkyards on Top of the World; The Mercury Himalayan Explorations; The Indian Olympic Association.
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