DID YOU KNOW– The 1st two persons from Meghalaya to scale Mount Everest?
TNT Desk | March 19, 2019
In the year 2012 and 2013, the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya saw two persons — Gary Jarman Lamare and Wansuk Myrthong become the first man and woman respectively from Meghalaya to conquer the Mount Everest.
The 1st person from Meghalaya to scale the mighty Everest was
Gary Jarman Lamare and the second time that a Meghalayan scaled the highest peak of the world after Gary Jarman Lamare was Wansuk Murthong.
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ABOUT GARY JARMAN LAMARE
Thirty seven-year-old Shillongite, Gary Jarman Lamare, a photographer with Discovery Channel, became the first individual from Meghalaya to summit Mount Everest in the year 2012.
Accompanying nine members of the Army Adventure Wing, Gary, a resident of Lower La Chaumiere here, scaled Mount Everest at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level in the early hours.
Born here on November 17, 1981, Gary is the son of Peter Jarman Lamare and Jyotsna Lamare.
Gary was also the first civilian from the country to scale Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres (26,906 ft) on May 24, 2006 along with 12 members of the Army Adventure Wing.
Earlier, he had accompanied the unit as high altitude cameraman to the third highest mountain peak in the world, Kanchenjunga, during the post monsoon period of 2004. The expedition, however, had to be abandoned because of inclement weather. He had reached 7,600m in that attempt.
Gary did his schooling from the All Saints' Diocesan Higher Secondary School and graduated from St Edmund's College, Shillong.
He is also a master scuba diving instructor and a certified diver with Professional Association of Dive Instructors.
As per a Telegraph report, Gary introduced scuba diving in Meghalaya. On August 15, 2011, he, along with his brother Jason and cousin David Ingty, started The Pioneer Adventure Tours at Shnong Pdeng village, Dawki. With the active support of Meghalaya tourism department, it now attracts over 200 tourists from India and abroad.
Tourists from as far as Poland, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, the US, Nepal and the states of Assam, Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and from the Northeast are drawn to the village.
ABOUT WANSUK MYRTHONG:
36-year-old Wansuk, a woman armed police constable in the 1st Meghalaya Police battalion, was one among the 16 climbers of the first Northeast India Top of the World Mount Everest Expedition, 2013 which was flagged off by President Pranab Mukherjee from Rashtrapati Bhavan on March 20 that year.
Wansuk was in Team Two along with six other climbers — David Zohmanggaiha of Mizoram, Kazi Sherpa of Sikkim, N. Chingkheinganba of Manipur, Tarun Saikia of Assam and two-time-Everester Anshu Jamsenpa of Arunachal Pradesh.
To her credits, the Khasi everester had participated in the pre-Everest expedition on Kolahai Peak (5,425 metres) and also took part in the high altitude physical conditioning Mt. Papsure (6,451 metres) in Himachal Pradesh.
She had also bagged two gold medals and one silver in the North East Zone Sports Climbing Committee.
Wansuk, who was enlisted in Meghalaya police in 2006 had undergone basic mountaineering course at Mountaineering and Skiing Institute, Indo-Tibetan Border Police, in Uttarkhand's Auli and secured high grades.
