Arunchal lad to scale Mount Everest

FROM PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Itanagar, Jul 7 (PTI) He sold his four prized mithuns to fund his expedition to climb Mera peak — the highest among 36 group-B peaks, at a height of 6654 metre in Nepal and is now considering a solo expedition to Mount Everest. [Inset: Mt. Everest. Photo Source: Wikipedia.org]

Though he could get sponsorship from clubs if he wanted dimunitive 24-year-old Tapi Mra from Lemiking in Upper Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh on the Sino-India preferred to bear the expenditure on his own.

Last year, he had scaled the 6160 metere Island Peak, in the same area almost barefoot, but because of his ignorance of the rules he could not secure a certificate for the feat.