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dated September 5, 1955: Indian climber's feat

Uganda's legendary "Mountains of the Moon" have for the first time been climbed by an Indian, and on the Indian Independence Day. 28-year-old Jagdish R. Sondhi, a civil engineer from the Roorki University, reached the 16,300-foot Moebius peak of Mount Stanley on August 15 and planted the Indian tricolour there. With Sondhi were two Argentine students. The "Mountains of the Moon" are poetically known to geographers as Mount Ruwenzori. Besides being the source of the Nile, they constitute the amazing phenomenon of being a snow-covered range on the Equator.

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