Indian Navy Conquers North Pole–Finishes the Three-Pole Challenge

April 10, 2008

The Indian Navy, led by Commander Satyabrata Dam, has conquered the final leg of it’s Three Pole Challenge by making a successful expedition to the North Pole. The team arrived at the North Pole at 8:16 pm on Wednesday Night.

Till now, only 23 people had ever conquered all three Poles–The North Pole, The South Pole, and the world’s highest Pole–Mount Everest. Three members of the Indian North Pole Expedition can now claim success at this feat as well: Commander Dam, Vikas Kumar, and Rakesh Kumar now stand in elite company as they bring the total of successful Three-Pole expeditioners to 26.

From KeralaNext.com:

“Speaking to media from North Pole, Commander Dam said: “We have reached
here after a physically demanding and painstaking journey. Now it seems
like we are on some different planet where the sun remains with us all
the time and the temperature hovers around minus 40 degree Celsius.”

The Indian Navy began the Three-Pole quest back on May 19th of 2004, when the team made a successful summit bid on Mt. Everest. The team followed up the success on Everest with a ski traverse to the Geographic South Pole on December 28, 2006.

Congratulations go out to the team and crew of the Indian Navy, led by Commander Satyabrata Dam, who was in charge–and the oldest member of the team (43), who led the group to all three poles. Well Done!

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