Indian,two others skydive to world record near Everest

Three skydivers including an Indian Air Force officer claimed to have made the highest parachute landing at the foot of the world's tallest peak 8,848 metre high Mount Everest.

Three skydivers including an Indian Air Force officer claimed to have made the highest parachute landing at the foot of the world’s tallest peak 8,848 metre high Mount Everest.

Air Commodore Ramesh Chandra Tripathi and two Britons –Leo Dickinson and Ralph Mitchell– jumped from over 6,000 metres in the shadow of the Mt Everest from a helicopter to land at a frozen lake at the Everest base camp,Gorak Shep,according to S Sapkota,chief of Nepal’s mountaineering department.

Gorak Shep where the skydivers landed is situated at the height of 5,167 metres.

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The three skydivers battered the previous record made last year in the same area of the Everest region when skydivers jumped to a drop zone situated at 3,764 metres. This is the first year that the Nepal tourism has opened the Everest zone to skydiving.

Earlier in May this year,Indian Army’s Col Niraj Rana set another record by landing above the camp II of Mt Makalu,situated above 7,000 metre on a para glider.

This was the highest place a para glider has ever landed.

“With a free fall timing of around five to six seconds,all touched the snow of Gorak Shep in four minutes. All three have returned to Kathmandu and are physically fit,” the organisers said in a statement.

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Dickinson and Mitchell have done over 4,000 jumps so far,while Tripathi has done over 3,000 jumps.

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