Jamshedpur, April 28: The Women�s Expedition to Gokyo Everest Grand Circle led by Bachendri Pal, Chief Adventure Programme, Tata Steel, was successfully completed when all 6 members of the Expedition reached Everest Base Camp via Gokyo RI.
The team comprised of Premlata Agrawal, Officer in Tata Steel who has climbed all the 7 highest summits of 7 continents, Swarnalata Darai from Orissa, Shanti Hembrum from Noamundi, Jharkhand, Poonam Rana from Uttarakhand, V Saraswati from Border Security Force Delhi and Amla Rawat from Dehradun. Sandeep Tolia a TSAF staff also participated to get valuable experience on leading expeditions.
Hemant Gupta and Payo Murmu were also part of this expedition to acclimatise themselves before they commenced their climb to Mt Everest. Bachendri Pal with years of leading behind her, coached the members during the journey on various matters of expedition.
From eating food (for providing calories or energy) to drinking fluids to maintain the physiological changes in the internal body systems to high altitude travel taking all precautions including the protection of eyes from the deadly ultra violet rays.
According to Bachendri Pal, �Every day I used to share my experiences and teach the team members why people climb mountains. What is the learning from it? It�s a journey of workshops where every day is different with new tasks. Two girls (Saraswati & Shanti) were in the mountains for first time.
I used to share with them about psychology in high altitude, high altitude sickness, ultra violet rays and its effects on eyes and skin; flora and fauna i.e. about pine trees junipers, rhododendron, Magnolia, Primula.�
