BSF officer sets record for scaling Everest

Kathmandu, June 5 (UNI) A BSF officer became the world's first high ranking official to climb the Mount Everest.

Sharab Chandub Negi, Additional Deputy Inspector General of Border Security Force (BSF), also became the oldest Indian to climb the peak, Himalayan Times reported today.

Negi, 56, was the leader of the BSF Everest Expedition and scaled the peak on May 19, the newspaper said.

''I did not know that I had set any records when I reached the Summit because that was not my intention,'' Negi was quoted as saying.

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