{"id":354212,"date":"2025-06-11T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354212"},"modified":"2025-06-11T07:41:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:11:55","slug":"ncc-team-scales-everest-interacts-with-raksha-rajya-mantri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ncc-team-scales-everest-interacts-with-raksha-rajya-mantri\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC team scales Everest, interacts with Raksha Rajya Mantri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-1024x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-1024x319.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-768x239.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-1536x479.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2048x638.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-696x217.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-1068x333.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-1347x420.jpg 1347w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-1920x598.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Raksha Rajya Mantri Sanjay Seth today interacted with the National Cadet Corps (NCC) Mount Everest Expedition team which successfully scaled Mount Everest on May 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the interaction cadets shared experiences, highlighting planning, training and challenges faced during the expedition. Seth lauded their efforts and teamwork for the incredible feat that marked the third successful Everest expedition by the NCC after similar accomplishments in 2013 and 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-1024x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-324x160.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-696x345.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-1068x529.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-847x420.jpg 847w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/06\/NCC-2-1920x952.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Comprising 10 cadets\u2014five boys and five girls\u2014and an average age of 19 years, many in the team were novice climbers. They were supported by a contingent of officers, junior commissioned officers, instructors and non-commissioned officers, making it a well-coordinated and professionally managed mission, according to an official statement. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expedition was flagged-off by Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh on April 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raksha Rajya Mantri Sanjay Seth today interacted with the National Cadet Corps (NCC) Mount Everest Expedition team which successfully scaled Mount Everest on May 18. During the interaction cadets shared experiences, highlighting planning, training and challenges faced during the expedition. Seth lauded their efforts and teamwork for the incredible feat that marked the third successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[19782,17860,19781],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354215,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354212\/revisions\/354215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}