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2 from Andhra Pradesh climb highest mountain in Europe

Two AP youth hoisted a 50-feet long Indian Tricolour on the summit at Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe on Thursday evening.

Vijayawada: Two AP youth hoisted a 50-feet long Indian Tricolour on the summit at Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe on Thursday evening. Vijayawada Adventure Club founder member U. Ragunath, a resident of Tadepalli in Guntur district, and Satya Rao, from the Bangaram Palem of Visakhapatnam district, had started climbing Mount Elbrus on July 22 from Russia.

The team reached the peak which is around 5,640 metres above sea level on Thursday morning Moscow time. “We are very happy that we succeeded in climbing Mount Elbrus with the inspiration of Malli Mastan Babu. We displayed a 50-feet long Tricolour on the summit along with a photograph of Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu for his Vision 2020,” he said.

Also on Thursday, Poorna Malavath, who had climbed Mount Everest at age 13 in 2015, and Telangana state mate Sri Vidya also summitted Mount Elbrus. World record holder Varsha Rahul from Pune also climbed the mountain. “I am determined to scale the seven highest mountain peaks in the seven continents. So far, I conquered three highest mountain peaks in three continents — Mt Everest in Asia, Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mt Elbrus, Europe,” she said. Vidya is from weaker section residential school at Alair, Nalgonda, and Poorna is in the social welfare college.

( Source : Deccan Chronicle. )
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