OPERATION BLUE FREEDOM TRIPLE WORLD RECORDS

Sept. 14, 2021

A team of eight persons with disabilities created a new world record for the “largest number of people with disabilities” to scale the world’s highest battlefield, Siachen Glacier, by scaling up to the Kumar Post at an altitude of 15,632 ft.

About:

  • The team with disabilities was trained and led by CLAW Global, a team of Special Forces veterans who had left the service due to disabilities.

  • This is the land world record expedition part of “Operation Blue Freedom Triple World Records” being undertaken by CLAW Global.

  • CLAW Global was set up in January 2019 by Major Vivek Jacob (retd), a Para Special Forces officer, who had to hang up his boots following a combat skydive injury after 14 years of service in the Army, with the aim of teaching life skills to adventurers and people with disabilities.

Source : The Hindu