Old Cottonian Sandeep Mansukhani of Rivaz; summited Stok Kangri – a 6153 mtrs peak, in the Ladakh region. It was a 5 days expedition, starting from Stok village, they reached base camp in two days. On the day of the ascent [20th August 2013], Sandeep started climbing for the summit attempt at 0030 hrs at night and reached the summit at 0700 hrs. Freezing temperatures and a lot of snow was encountered during the climb. On reaching the summit, Sandeep stayed there for half an hour and then moved down to base camp. He says it was a “Great experience, and challenging due to bad weather conditions.” Sandeep is planning for his next expedition to climb KUN which is a 7077 mtrs peak in Jammu & Kashmir. He leaves for Srinagar on 5th Sept 2013. Sandeep says “This is a very technical peak with lots of uncertainties. It is a 25 day expedition”
Congratulations! And all the best for your next expedition!
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- At Leh, Shanti Stupa
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- Stok village.. All loaded
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- Aclamatizing at higher pass…
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- Mounkarmo 4250 m
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- The weather
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- Resting at ABC (advance base camp)
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- Walking through the glacier
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- TEAM
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- Stok Kangri summit!
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- View 1
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- View 2
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- On the way back to civilization
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Heartiest Sandeep,
I attempted Stok Kangri in Aug 2012, but had to return from the Base Camp (advance Base Camp was not permitted last year) as I was suffering from Acute Mountain Sickness with a Blood Saturation dropped to 58%.Last year too the weather was very bad but 4 guys from our group summitted, whereas another 4 had to come back from the summit- attempt by early morning.
So this yar I again tried to cross 6000M, set out with our group from Leh on 30July for Mentok Kangri (6250M) and summited at 1.00pm on 8th August after a tough climb due to no snow but very hard ice which meant we had to jumaar for over 2 Hrs up 300M fixed line.Still it felt GREAT to get to the top, before we started our descent afyter 5min there as the weather was turniung bad- hit a thunderstorm and snoe with a white-out on the way down to our assault camp.
Cheers
Gurdeep Singh (Horsey)- Lefroy: 1953- 1960
This made me try again to cross 6000M so
Congratulations on your achievement! All the best for your upcoming expedition to the summit of Kun.
This is awesome. Congratulatios.
Carry the BCS flag to the summit of KUN & plant it.
RAdm R Chopra
He did it:
http://oldcottonians.org/magazine/2013/09/sandeep-mansukhani-climbs-kun-7077-mtrs-congratulations/