J&K’s Pioneer Trekking Organization, Tawi Trekkers, Set to Scale Mount Everest in Landmark Expedition

29-05-2023 : Tawi Trekkers J&K, the pioneer trekking organization of J&K,  shall undertake its most ambitious & prestigious activity since its formation 40 years ago, a mountaineering expedition to Mount Everest, the highest peak of the world. The expedition shall be organized in 2025. It was decided by core members of the club in a meeting organized under the chairmanship of Prof. Lalit Magotra, a founder member and an advisor of the club, to celebrate International Everest Day today.

Other members of the core committee present in the meeting included patrons of the club Ashwani Sharma, former MLA & Rahul Sharma, Chairman Sprawling Buds ICSE  School, Bantalab, Jammu; President Mountaineering Association of J&K Zorawar Singh Jamwal; President Tawi Trekkers J&K Ram Khajuria and veteran members Sumit Khajuria and Vivek Chauhan, Principal, Oriental Academy Senior Secondary School, Jammu.

For proper selection of the mountaineers Sumit Khajuria, a highly trained mountaineer and a veteran member of the club has been entrusted with the responsibility to organise at least  four pre-Everest expeditions in 2023 and 2024 and   also to make all necessary arrangements for the smooth conduct of the expedition.

It is interesting to mention here that though Jammu has the distinction of producing eleven Everesters including Col. Ranveer Singh Jamwal who has summited Everest three times and also highest peaks of all the continents of the world  and Sangeeta Bahl, the oldest Indian woman to scale Everest at the age of 53 years Tawi Trekkers J&K has not organised any major mountaineering expedition on its own because of the prohibitive cost of such expeditions.

Meanwhile, a founder member of Tawi Trekkers J&K Ram Khajuria who is presently the President of the club has contributed an amount of Rs. One Lakh for the initial preparation of the expedition. The expedition is estimated to cost around Rs. 65 lakhs.