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Imphal, May 24 2013 : With the successful summit to Mt Eve-rest by Manish Deka from Assam today at 5.45am, the record setting 1st NE India Mt Everest Expedition came to an end.
The total number of successful Everesters from the expedition team stands at 11.After Tarun Saikia, Manish Deka is the second climber from Assam to summit the Mt.
Everest successfully.
Puyam Mohon from Ma-nipur made his summit of Mt.
Everest on May 19 at 8.15am.The expedition is being sponsored by North Eastern Council, Shillong, supported by Planning Department, Govt of Manipur and implemented by Manipur Mountai- neering and Trekking Association.
Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh is the Chief Patron and Chief Secretary DS Poonia the Chef de-Mission.
This is the first time that 11 mountaineers from North East India have made their successful summit of Mt.
Everest on a single expedition.
The expedition was flag-ged off by President of India on March 20 .
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Significantly, N Bidyapati from Manipur and Wansuk Myrthong from Meghalaya became the first women Everest summiter from their respective State.
N Chingkheinganba from Manipur became the youngest Indian to scale the Mt.
Everest while Anshu Jamsenpa created a history by being the only mother of 2 who scaled the Mt.
Everest for the third time.
David and Tarun Saikia became the first Everest summiter from Mizoram and Assam respectively.
The Govt of Assam had earlier announced a cash award of Rs 20 Lakhs for Tarun Saikia and Govt of Manipur had announced a cash incentive of Rs 10 Lakhs each for summiters from Manipur and 1 lakhs for the Manipuri mountaineers who made an attempt.
Further Govt of Meghalaya had announced promotion of Wansuk in the Meghalaya Police.
The team, led by Dr L Surjit, will depart for Lukla and further to Kathmandu.
They will arrive at Delhi on May 30 .
via NorthEast Calling - NorthEast India | India's No1 online News Magazine http://www.necalling.com/north-east-mt-everest-expedition-ends/
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