CIA expedition turned Indian mountain into radioactive peak Himalayan Times NANDA DEVI

From: The Independent - London | Date: January 3, 2000| Author: Stephen Goodwin | Copyright information

CLIMBERS ARE urging India to reopen the Nanda Devi Sanctuary, one of the mountain wonders of the world and a sacred place to Hindus. Unfortunately, it may also harbour a nuclear time bomb.

The story of Nanda Devi, the highest peak in India, runs from the sublime to the frighteningly ridiculous. Thought an impregnable shrine until two English adventurers penetrated its rim in 1934, the sanctuary was the scene of a CIA fiasco 30 years later when climbers recruited by the US agency tried...

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