In a first for Meghalaya, mountaineer Gary Jarman Lamare has successfully scaled Mt Everest, the highest peak in the Himalayas.
Lamare climbed the 8848 m peak in the early hours yesterday along with members of the Indian Army adventure wing, officials said here said.
He is credited with being the first civilian from India to scale the Cho Oyu peak in China, the 6th highest peak of the world at 8201 m on May 2006.
Earlier he had accompanied the Army Adventure Wing as high altitude cameraman on an assault on Mt Kanchenjunga, during post monsoon in 2004, which however, had to be abandoned due to bad weather.
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