6-year-old Teghbir Singh sets world record, becomes youngest across world to scale Europe’s highest mountain peak
PTC News Desk: A 6-year-old Teghbir Singh, resident of Punjab's Ropar district has scripted the history as he has become the youngest across the the world to scale Europe's highest mountain peak Mount Elbrus.
The highest peak of the European continent, located in Russia at a staggering height of over 18,510 feet (5,642 metres). Teghbir began his trek to Mount Elbrus on June 20 and walked all the way to reach the summit, the highest point of the mountain, on June 28.
Notably this is a low-oxygen trek where one needs to be prepared to battle with high altitude sickness. However, conquering all these challenges, he finally reached the summit, where the normal temperature is -10°C, and fulfilled his dream.
Elated over his biggest achievement, he said, “I knew where I was to reach and finally I reached and had a picture with my father there. I was walking first time on snow, my shoes were heavy but I had practised it back,” added the second standard student of Shiwalik Public School, Ropar.
A proud father expressing his contentment over his son's achievement, Sukhinderdeep Singh said, “Teghbir started preparing for this feat almost a year back. He was trained by Bikramjit Singh Ghuman, a retired coach, who used to help him with the exercises related to increasing cardiovascular health and lung capacity to deal with altitude sickness. He used to go on weekly treks with me and the coach to different hilly locations.”
“Our stays were in mountain huts and it took eight days to scale the summit. Due to bad weather and a fierce snowstorm, the summit push was cancelled twice,” he said, adding that Teghbir shall return to India on July 1.
- PTC NEWS
