Captain Mohan Kohli speaks at Mussoorie Writers' Festival, he says, "The seven lethal capsules are still on the Nanda Devi area. My feeling is that it will be, there are hundred and one ways it could have happened. It could have either come and gone into the Rishi Ganga, it could have been sunk as I said before, it could have stop somewhere on the way many things could have happened so the possibilities are endless so instead of giving one solution and I remember this old song in the new days 'Ouesera Sera' but before I end I would like to say that under the instructions of Steve I have tried to finish this in 20 seconds. Actually, this talk deserves about two hours because these are eight expeditions one to Mount McKinley, four two Nanda Devi and three to Nanda Core each expedition was a full fledged expedition and theses expedition deserves a book also but to put the story of eight expeditions in 20 minutes, well I tried to obey his orders. After we succeeded at Nanda Core on the 30th May, 1st June we came to base camp".


Captain Mohan Singh Kohli is an internationally renowned Indian mountaineer. An officer in the Indian Navy who joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, he led the 1965 Indian expedition which put nine men on the summit of Everest, a world record which lasted for 17 years. He may be most famous though for revealing 1960s' Himalayan expeditions for the CIA that placed equipment to monitor nuclear sites in China. Mohan Kohli was President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation from 1989 to 1993. In 1989, he co-founded the Himalayan Environment Trust. He has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan and Arjuna Award.

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"Mussoorie Writers' EXPERIENCE THE HIMALAYA: A MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL (Nov. 1-4, 2012) celebrated exploration, natural history and mountain culture. Events ranged from a photographic exhibition to a just-released film, The Old Breed, about Steve Swenson's recent ascent of the highest unclimbed summit in the world - Saser Kangri II. Swenson himself, one of America's toughest climbers, spoke about the adventure of this expedition, along with the values and philosophy that drives him to reach extreme heights. A large audience of students, teachers and visitors enjoyed the mountain poetry of Gulzar, accompanied by Pavan Varma and Sukrita Paul Kumar.

Woodstock's Parker Hall was filled with the lyrical folk songs of Nagaland, performed by the Tetseo Sisters. Italian alpinists, Manolo and Herve Bermasse spoke of the challenges they overcome on the mountains and showed films about their perpendicular exploits, while Rekha Bhardwaj sang mountain lyrics together with Bollywood hits. Dr. Charles Clarke, one of Britain's most eminent mountaineers, discussed mountain literature as well as the important traditions of Tibetan medicine. Controversy, politics and intrigue are all a part of Himalayan history and Capt. M. S. Kohli, who led India's first successful ascent of Everest, revealed first-hand details about the joint CIA and Indian Intelligence operation on Nanda Devi during the 1960's.


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