ITBP to scale world's 7th tallest mountain

New Delhi, Mar 10: A 25-member Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition team was on Friday flagged off to scale Mount Dhaulagiri, the world's seventh tallest peak located in Nepal. Union Home Secretary Rajiv Mehrishi and ITBP chief Krishna Chaudhary sent off the personnel of the mountain-trained border guarding force for the expedition during an event held in New Delhi.

Dhaulagiri is one of the coveted 8,000-metre peaks, standing as the 7th highest mountain in the



world. In Sanskrit, Dhaulagiri translates into Dhavali giri, meaning 'White Mountain'. Dhaulagiri is the highest mountain that lies entirely within Nepal.

The 8,167-metre tall peak is located in Nepal and this will be the first expedition of the force to this mountain. It was successfully climbed for the first time by a Swiss-Austrian-Nepali expedition in 1960, an ITBP official said. The team is expected to make the final summit anytime in May and return by June.