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THE SUMMITEERS: Seven members of the Sonam Gyatso Mountaineering Institute (SGMI) successfully climbed Mount Everest in a recent expedition organised after a gap of 43 years. They reached the peak from South Cole in Nepal recently. Three other members, including two women from Sikkim, also touched the peak.

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