Siachen Hero Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar passes away

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Siachen Hero Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar passes away

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At age 87. Salute to the Hero. May the departed soul achieve Moksha. He was part of the India's first mission to Mt. Everest

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Om Shanti. He did more. He was instrumental to convince Lt. Gen Chibber to initiate the whole Siachen mission and convey the potential threat. He ran a successful mountain expedition company. May the nation honor these braves forever. Salute!
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Om Shanti!
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My humble shradhanjali to this great son of India.
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Om shanthi. A great hero who secured India's borders. Will always be remembered.
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Sad news to start an year. One of the world’s greatest climbers of modern era and a legend who should be celebrated for younger generations to know about.
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Om Shanti! Your services to the nation will always be remembered!
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A legend in his lifetime, a great hero of modern India who will be spoken of time and again down the ages! We salute you Col.Kumar,may the Almighty give you eternal peace.
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Om Shanti.
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Om Shanti. A great son of India indeed. We hold on to Siachen entirely due to his efforts.
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Om Shanti! A true visionary with extra-ordinary courage and conviction - India owes a lot to him!
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Om Shanti
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Om Shanti. A warrior and a mountaineer par excellence. You will be missed Sir.
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Om Shanti!
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Rest in Peace
He certainly was the bull who single handedly charged the entire nation up the mountain.

The only man to increase India's real estate in a large enough manner after 1947.
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https://theprint.in/defence/colonel-nar ... 87/577193/

BR quoted in this article above.

New Delhi: Colonel Narendra ‘Bull’ Kumar, an iconic mountaineer and the man who helped secure the Siachen Glacier for India, passed away Thursday at the Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital in Delhi.

Kumar, 87, was suffering from age-related ailments.

He was responsible for the success of Operation Meghdoot in 1984, a high-altitude operation to pre-empt Pakistan from occupying the Saltoro Ridge and the Siachen Glacier.

“It was his inadvertent friendship with a German and his bull-like approach that saved the Siachen for us,” Lt Gen. Sanjay Kulkarni (Retd), first officer to have landed with his troops on the glacier on 13 April 1984, told ThePrint.

Lt Gen. Kulkarni explained that, in 1977, a German national had shown Colonel Kumar an American map of northern Kashmir that marked the ceasefire line between India and Pakistan much further to the east. According to the map, the entire Siachen Glacier would lie in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

If Pakistan had taken control of the Siachen Glacier, the Sub-Sector North — an area of contention with China — would have been sandwiched between Pakistani and Chinese forces

Realising that the US made a cartographic error, Col. Kumar immediately brought it to the notice of seniors and the then Director-General of Military Operations.

“He was asked what he wants to do. He said he would like to do a recce and he was allowed to do so,” Kulkarni said.

In 1978, Col. Kumar formed a team from the High Altitude Warfare School — a training and research establishment of the Indian Army — in Gulmarg, and started his trek, which was the first such trek by India to Siachen. During his trek, he planted the tricolour on the way to establish Indian authority.

Later, in 1981-82, he undertook a trip to the Siachen again, and mapped the entire area.

In a rare move, the Colonel wrote about his exploration of the glacier in The Illustrated Weekly of India in 1983, with pictures, which was seen as India staking claim to the area.

“It was those very same maps made by Col Kumar that helped us in 1984. We took the same route,” Lt Gen Kukarni said, adding that he was the saviour of the Siachen.

Several successful mountaineering expeditions by Col. Kumar

Born in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, Col. Kumar was commissioned into the Kumaon regiment of the Army.

He has the rare distinction of being decorated with the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) at the rank of a colonel. He was also bestowed with Kirti Chakra and Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.

Kumar also has a post in the Siachen Glacier named after him.

Interestingly, Kumar has skied all the passes on the Siachen Glacier such as the Bila-Fondla, Saltoro Pass, Sia-La, Turkistan-La, Indira-Col and Pass Italia. He also successfully led expeditions to Saltoro Kangri (which is 25,400 feet above sea level), the highest peak in the Eastern Karakoram range.

His other achievements include successfully leading mountaineering expeditions to the highest peaks of Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Garhwal, Kashmir and Eastern Karakorams.

According to Bharat Rakshak, a website curated by military enthusiasts, of the 13 peaks, with a height above 24,000 feet, climbed by Indians, nine have been climbed under his leadership.

“In 1960, he was amongst the first eight in the world who had crossed the high altitude barrier of 28,000 feet. In 1965, he was the Deputy Leader of the Indian Mount Everest Expedition which put nine people on the top — a world record,” the article noted.

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Om Shanti to a brave soul. not the ideal way to start the english new year. but there should be some commemoration of his efforts for posterity by the govt. for the future generations.
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Om shanti sahib!!
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Om Shanti!!!

Once the true history of the last 40 years is written what he achieved!!!

TSP currently in doldrums is a result of his early action.
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Kumar glacier !!
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One of the pioneers of Mountaineering,a soldier and a great patriot,aum Shanti.
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May Bharatmata be blessed with such sons who have the resolve, fortitude and foresightedness to achieve the nation's manifest destiny.
Om Shanti Shanti Shantih.
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Om Shanti.
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