Promoting Adventure Sports to Students

Forty students from Samdong Senior Secondary School both male and female had finished their five day rock climbing course held at Samdong in East Sikkim. The program was organized by the National Social Service (NSS) and Tenzing Norgay Climbing Club, a wing of Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling and was created to promote adventure sports in the area. All forty-two students who are members of NSS were trained by three instructors. They received certificates from Tenzing Norgay Climbing Club and three of them will be selected for rock climbing training at Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling which will be sponsored by the state government. According to Mr. Nawang Gompu Sherpa who was the guest of honor in the said event "today's students should focus on adventure sports which is rare in the region and the government should give more emphasis on it." Sherpa is a well known mountain climber who had climbed Mount Everest twice. Visit www.thestatesman.net for more details about this news story.