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Dr. Anisuzzman and Dr. Sirajul Islam Choudhury
addressing a press conference at the National Press Club
yesterday on the occasion of climbing of Singu Chuli a
Himalayan peak by a Bangladeshi team. NN photo

Staff Reporter

A mountaineering group recently trekked 21,328-feet height of the Himalayan and reached 'Singu Chuli', its highest peak.

This was disclosed at a press conference organised by Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC) at the National Press Club yesterday.

Eminent educationists Dr Anisuzzaman and Dr Sirajul Islam Chowdhury were present as guests of honour at the conference.

Founder of BMTC and traveller of Antarctica and the North Pole Inam Al Haque, team leader of the group Nishat Majumder, five members of the group MA Muhit, Sajal Khaled, Nur Mohammad, Walid Ashraf and Riaz Ahmed were also present at the press conference and described their experiences of the expedition.

Trekkers said climbing up the Singu Chuli was one of the tough trekking in the Himalayan. They left Dhaka for Nepal on May 20 and started their expedition from Pokhara on May 25. They reached the 'Singu Chuli' at 10:45am (local time) on June 4 and hoisted the national flag of Bangladesh.

All members of the mountaineering group earlier took training at different mountaineering institutes in India, they said.