Eight NCC cadets and four Army personnel scaled Mount Everest in two teams on 19 and 20 May 2013. The NCC cadets who scaled the peak were Cadets Khimi Ram, Ashwani Kumar, Rajat and Karma Dawa of Himachal Pradesh, Cadets Bidya Chand Singh and Chirom Shangkar Singh from Manipur, Cadet Sandeep Rai from West Bengal and Cadet Arvind Raturi from Uttarakhand. The Army personnel who scaled the peak were Subedar Jagat Singh Negi of Dogra Scouts, Havildar Rafiq Ahmed Malik of JAK LI, Havildar Raghuveer Chand of Garhwal Rifles and Rifleman Ramesh Bahadur Thapa of 3rd Gorkha Rifles.