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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
First Indian Army Mountaineering Expedition held in which Mountain?
A
Mt Kamet
B
Mt Kangchenjunga
C
Mt Makalu
D
Mt Nanda Devi
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -(a) First successful Indian Expedition on Mt Manaslu.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1965 Indian Everest Expedition reached the summit of Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. It was the first successful scaling of the mountain by an Indian climbing expedition.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Mohan Singh Kohli, a navy captain and leader of the 1965 expedition, it was going to be his third attempt. This time he had promised his wife that “there should be at least eight on top". Kohli, now 83, wrote a book on the expedition titled Nine Atop Everest.

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