Bengal NCC Girls scale Mount Everest

Trishala Gurung and Sulaxchana Tamang, two college girls from Darjeeling have successfully scaled the Mount Everest on 22nd May, 2016, 8am local time. They were the membembers of the all-girls NCC expedition team. Ms. Trishala Gurung (22), a second-year student of Southfield College Darjeeling, and Ms. Sulaxchana Tamang (21) first-year student of Ghoom Degree College Darjeeling reached the summit on their first attempt. The expedition was led by Col Gaurav Karki, fifteen service personnel and ten girl cadets who from Nepal took a long trek to the base camp from where they scaled the peak of the Mount Everest.