Neikhrietuonuo Linyu (File Photo)
Morung Express News
Dimapur | May 25
One of humanity’s last bastions, the Mount Everest, has fallen yet again and this time it is a gritty lady from Nagaland who has done her State proud by conquering the highest peak in the world.
Neikhrietuonuo Linyu of Kohima village became the first Naga to successfully scale Mount Everest when she and two others reached the peak’s summit at around 4:1 AM, Friday, May 25, knowledgeable sources informed today. Linyu was part of an Indian military expedition to the Mount Everest. According to reports, Linyu has yet to touch ground and at the time of filing this news report.
Sources informed that Linyu is a medical officer in the rank of Major with the Indian army Medical Corps and is currently posted in Agra, it is informed. She is said to have joined the military services as a medical doctor in 2001.
Sources informed that the expedition team that reached the summit has descended at the second camp and expected to touch ground in about 2-days time.
“Ginuo” as she is said to be known, is a daughter of a citizen Pelhousenyu Angami of ‘L’ khel, of Kohima village.
Highly qualified, accomplished and born with a passion for adventure, the military medical officer is also speculated to be the first paratrooper from Nagaland. Sources close to the achiever’s family said that the lady is reportedly into quite a lot of adventure activities, with mountaineering being one of her passions. She has already scaled the fourth-highest mountain, Mount Makalu.
Information from knowledgeable sources said Linyu studied in Don Bosco School in Kohima and completed her 12th class from Kohima Science College, Jotsoma. She then pursued MBBS from RIIMS in Imphal after which she joined the medical corps.
Zeenews reports that the mountaineering team included four lady officers, of which one is understood to be Linyu.
“One male officer along with four women officers, three NCOs successfully summited the Everest in the morning. One of the Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) reached the summit without using oxygen cylinders,” Zeenews quoted Army officials as saying.
The expedition was carried out through South (Nepal) which is known as the traditional route, from which Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had first climbed.
The 22-member team led by ace mountaineer Colonel Ajay Kothiyal was flagged off by Army Deputy Chief Lt Gen Ramesh Halgali on March 12.
The women team was supported by ten Army men in scaling the peak.
The Everest was first conquered by an Army team in 2001 and the first Army women team had scaled the peak through North (Tibet) in 2005.
