ICE CLIMBING IN PAHALGAM, JAMMU AND KASHMIR .
December 30,2017: Jammu and Kashmir Tourism department in- collaboration with Pahalgam Development Authority today on 30 of December 2017 organised two Day Ice Climbing event at Chandanwari Pahalgam in which 22 trained ice climbers participated.
The event was flagged off by local administration... CEO Pahalgam, SDM Pahalgam and ADT Tourism Pahalgam.
Ice climbing is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water. In Kashmir, despite having immense potential Ice-Climbing was never done before 2016 or introduced. The sport is popular among the extreme adventure sports lovers and they keep looking for new challenges in the sport.
In Jammu and Kashmir it was 3rd time done at pahalgam with expert climbers and mountaineers of valley taking part in it.
Mushtaq Pahalgami,
Himalayan Welfare Organization-HWO
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