BM Sharma, a civilian employee of the Indian Navy, created history of sorts on Saturday when he scaled Mt Everest. Popularly known as ‘Breeze’ Sharma amongst his colleagues, the climber could not achieve this feat in 2015 when an avalanche hit the base camp of Everest burying him under heavy snow. But Sharma not only managed to come out but even helped in rescue operations to pull out other buried climbers then.
Determined to climb the world’s highest peak, Sharma was allowed to undertake the venture by the Nepal Government again this year and he scaled the 8,848-metre-high Everest peak on Saturday morning, Navy officials said here.
They also said ‘Breeze’ has become the first Indian Navy Defence civilian to achieve the landmark.
A fitness enthusiast, Sharma last year gained rookie entry in the world’s toughest foot race Badwater 135miles in USA and he completed it to become only the second and the fastest Indian at the event. This year he also broke his own previously held record of 24 hours Treadmill Running Asian Record by clocking 202.50 kms.
Incidentally, a team of 24 officers and sailors of the Indian Navy are now in Nepal to scale Everest. The team will try to successfully summit the highest peak 13 years after an Indian Navy team achieved the feat. The current expedition is named ‘Sagartal se Sagarmatha(from seabed to Everest).’
The team will take the original route used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. The expedition left for Nepal on March 29 and the Indian Navy climbers will attempt to scale the peak next week.