{"id":1679,"date":"2005-06-05T18:03:50","date_gmt":"2005-06-05T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1679"},"modified":"2005-06-05T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2005-06-05T21:34:12","slug":"on_top_of_the_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/05\/on_top_of_the_w\/","title":{"rendered":"On top of the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1131168.cms\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"indian_army.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/indian_army.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\" align=middle><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>These gals could kick my scrawny little Mallu butt anyday.   <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-1131168,curpg-2.cms\">The The Times of India reports<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Indian Army&#8217;s women mountaineers created history by becoming the first women&#8217;s expedition to scale the Mt Everest.\n\nCaptain Shipra Mazumdar, Captain Ashwini Pawar, Cadet Tshering Ladol and Trainee Dechin Lhamo scaled the 8848-metre high peak between 0615 and 0939 hours. <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Alas, upon reaching the summit, the team discovered they&#8217;d been beat to the top by Hrithik and Priety Zinta &amp; a movie crew who, inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001674.html\">nuptials on the peak<\/a>, were seeking the biggest, baddest alpine love chase <em>cum <\/em>Monsoon Wedding in the history of Bollywood.  Captain Mazumdar and her team were invited to participate as background dancers but respectfully declined.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These gals could kick my scrawny little Mallu butt anyday. The The Times of India reports &#8211; Indian Army&#8217;s women mountaineers created history by becoming the first women&#8217;s expedition to scale the Mt Everest. Captain Shipra Mazumdar, Captain Ashwini Pawar, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/05\/on_top_of_the_w\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}