Girl from Kodagu hoists Indian flag atop Mount Elbrus of Russia
Alumni of St. Agnes of Mangaluru scaled the peak
Madikeri, November 13: A girl from Kodagu became the cynosure of all eyes after she created a history by hoisting the tricolour atop Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Russia.
Bhavani, daughter of Tekkada Nanjundaswamy and Parvati of Perur village near Napoklu, scaled 5,642 meters height mountain. She has represented India along with three other climbers of Mexico, France and Romania. All the four were given training for three days in Russia.
Elbrus is the highest peak in Russia and among European countries, this is the 10th highest peak. But Bhavani has climbed the snowy mountain in eight hours and hoisted the flag. She was also known as the fastest climber. Bhavani climbed the peak first among four climbers. Interestingly, she climbed the mountain as a girl leaving three men behind.
She began her expedition bon October 18th midnight amidst chilling cold and continued her journey stepping on the ice and reached the summit on October 19 at 9.30 am.
Right from the beginning, she has passion for mountaineering. She has the ambition of climbing the Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. But it is not so easy. It requires preparation, training and financial assistance. If the government and organisations helped her in achieving her dream, she will climb the Everest, she said.
Already, she has climbed the mountain at Darjiling in North India.
Bhavani has completed her primary school at Srimangala JC School. Later, she has continued her study at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya of Galibeedu and completed her graduation at At. Agnes of Mangaluru. Now, she is working as a teacher at Himalayan Mountaineering Institute of Darjeeling.
She has more interest towards defence and adventure. She has joined NCC in high school level and continued it even in college. She had also participated in Republic Day parade held in New Delhi in 2016.
She has also participated in All India Air Force Sainik camp held at Jodhpur and appreciated by the chief minister Siddaramaiah, NCC director general Lt.Gen. Aniruddh Chakravarthy, Karnataka Goa NCC deputy director general air commander C Rajiv. Bhavani has got the primary training in mountaineering from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering Allied Sports of Manali. Higher level training was taken from Himalayan Mountaineering Institute of Darjeeling.
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute has already conducted various tough mountaineering activities successfully. Among them, she is the only girl who completed the mountaineering activities efficiently. She has already climbed the ice mountains like Rudugaira of Uttarakhand, Friendship of Manali, Renic and Stok Kangri in Leh. She has expertise in horse riding, swimming and various other trainings in defense sector.
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NATO, others turn down US call for help in Hormuz: Trump
Washington (PTI): President Donald Trump on Tuesday said NATO and most of US' other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz as the war with Iran entered the third week.
In a social media post, Trump asserted that Iran’s military has been “decimated” and he no longer felt the need for assistance from NATO countries or anyone else.
Last week, Trump had sought help from European nations and others who depend on oil supplies transiting from the Hormuz Strait to safeguard the critical waterway.
“The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon,” the US President said in a post on Truth Social.
Iran's attacks on Gulf nations and its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil is transported, have sparked increasing concerns of a global energy crisis and are unnerving the world economy.
“I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need,” Trump said.
He said Australia, Japan and South Korea too have turned down his call for help.
“Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military – Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again,” Trump said.
He said that given the scale of recent military successes, the US no longer "need" or desires assistance from NATO countries, adding that it never relied on such support in the first place.
Speaking as President of the United States, the "most powerful" country in the world, "we do not need" help from anyone, Trump said.
The West Asia conflict began on February 28 when the US-Israeli combine conducted airstrikes on Iran.
The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open ocean, has effectively been shut following the US and Israel attack on Iran and Tehran's sweeping retaliation.
However, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had said that from Tehran's "perspective", the strait is "open". "It is only closed to Iran's enemies, to those who carried out unjust aggression against our country and to their allies.”
Earlier in the day, a second Indian-flagged LPG tanker, Nanda Devi, reached the country after safely sailing from the war-hit Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, the first ship, Shivalik, reached Mundra port in Gujarat.
As of now, 22 Indian vessels remain on the west side and two on the east side of the strait.
Indian authorities are in constant touch with all the relevant stakeholders in the region to secure the safe passage of the remaining ships, officials said.
