Videos tagged with "nepal army"

Royal Nepal army MI8 helicopter taking off [00:59]
Russian MI 8 or MI17 helicopter in use for ferrying supplies to Everest Base Camp. The climatic conditions in the Sagarmatha region change without prior signs. The team gears up for the summit attempts as the weather clears up and the men set out for the top. There is no time to waste, it's a now or never situation as the teams climbing permit expires by the end of the month may 2001. Indian Army added another feather to its cap in May 2001, when its mountaineers successfully scaled Mount Everest and put a record eight members and seven Sherpas on the summit. This is the largest number of summiteers on Mount Everest in an Indian expedition. The mighty mountain ranges of the Himalayas have, over the centuries, inspired not only man's imagination and spiritual quest, but also his spirit of adventure. Mount Everest, the tallest of the peaks of the Himalayas as also the whole world, stood in its unattainable isolation for thousands of years, till Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary conquered it in 1953. Since then, at least a thousand climbers have set foot on it. That at least 200 have lost their lives while trying to scale the peak speaks of the infinite dangers involved in the task. The Indian Army Mount Everest Expedition was flagged off by the Chief of the Army Staff on 1st March 2001 at New Delhi. It was led by Col. Krishan Kumar. After flagging off, the team moved to Nepal and after a long trek from Jiri, reached Base Camp of Everest on 3rd April 2001. The stocking and ...
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Nepal Becomes Land mine free.MPG [00:57]
Going inside a cave or tunnel ... was dangerous because some lethal and powerful land mines had been planted there during the war to protect the fortress from the rebel Maoists ... it was the same cave where the Swargadwari's saint meditated and achieved nirvana. .... good news that the cave has been cleared of all dangers and land mines by the Nepal Army..
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Land mine blast by Nepal Army.MPG [00:26]
Nepal Army personnel blast the landmine planted at a religiously important hill in Pyuthan, Nepal.
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