KOLKATA: The ‘Justice for RG Kar‘ marketing campaign reached new heights, fairly actually, as mountaineers from a north Kolkata trekkers’ affiliation scaled 6,400-plus-metre Kang Yatze peak in Ladakh and unfurled a poster there demanding justice for the trainee physician who was brutally raped and murdered on the medical hospital on Aug 9.
The mountaineers additionally raised the Tricolour at Kang Yatze.Climbers regard this peak as one of many hardest mountaineering challenges on the planet.
The group of six members comprising chief Pradip Chakraborty, Ranadip Adhikari, Biswajit Biswas, Shampa Oraon, Shyamal Acharya and Ashoke Sarkar from Kamarhati Trekkers’ Affiliation, began the expedition from Kolkata on Aug 21. At Ladakh, they arrange their base camp number one and a couple of in Markha Valley on Aug 28 and 29 respectively. They lastly summited the primary peak of Kang Yatze at 6.30am on Saturday. On Sunday, the group reached the bottom camp in Leh-Ladakh. “It was sheer pleasure to succeed in the highest after 8.5 hours of climbing. We had been decided to unfurl the banner studying ‘We Need Justice’ on the snow-clad Himalayan peak. However in the back of our minds, there was apprehension in regards to the descent – 900-odd meters down with out meals and water,” Ranadip Adhikary informed TOI from Leh-Ladakh camp. The descent took a further 5 hours.
The mountaineers’ effort to focus on the trigger at such a big altitude provides a symbolic resonance to the continued motion.
“As investigations proceed, the demand for ‘Justice for RG Kar’ grows louder, echoing not solely on the streets of Kolkata however now additionally from the heights of the Himalayas. I could not take part on this expedition however inspired my colleagues after our affiliation determined to dedicate this journey to the RG Kar sufferer,” Arup Saha, member of Kamarhati Trekkers’ Affiliation informed TOI.
