A senior officer said Sunday that ITBP personnel from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police will scale 75 peaks on Independence Day and complete a 75 day long range patrol along the LAC with China to mark the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav'' celebrations.
On August 15, ITBP spokeswoman Vivek Kumar Pandey told PTI that the mountain expedition named 'Amritarohan' will take place at various locations along the eastern front.
The peaks to be climbed are located in the vicinity of 75 ITBP border posts spread along the India-China Line of Actual Control LAC he said.
33 peaks are in Ladakh, 16 in Uttarakhand, 11 in Sikkim, 10 in Himachal Pradesh and five in Arunachal Pradesh, Pandey said.
He said that the force will climb these 75 different peaks on August 15, 2022, and create a unique record of hoisting the Indian flag simultaneously.
The highest peak is at a height of 18,750 feet and is located in Sikkim.
The border force has also started a 75 day long'relay range patrol LRP by its troops along the 3,488 km of the LAC.
The relay LRP started from Karakoram Pass in Ladakh on August 1 and will end up at Jachep La in Arunachal Pradesh on October 14 after completing a 75 day journey, covering a distance of about 7,575 km across the borders, Pandey said.
A total of 90,000 personnel-strong ITBP was raised in the aftermath of the Chinese aggression in 1962 and is deployed for performing a variety of internal security duties apart from guarding the LAC.