ITBP troops perform 'yoga' at high altitude

On the occasion of International Yoga Day, the Indo-Tibetian Border Police performed yoga in the most difficult terrains of the country. At an altitude of 19,000 ft near OP Dorjila in Sikkim, the personnel did yoga at minus 15 degrees Celsius.

New Delhi: Withstanding the extreme cold, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) performed Yoga in the most difficult terrain of the country on the occasion of International Yoga Day.

At 18,000 ft in Northern Ladakh, the soldiers carried out yoga with the temperature of minus 20 degrees Celsius.

The ITBP troops of Animal Training School (ATS) Lohitpur, performed yoga in the early hours of the day before the break of dawn at the easternmost tip of Arunachal Pradesh where the sun rises first.

At an altitude of 19,000 ft near OP Dorjila in Sikkim, the personnel did yoga at minus 15 degrees Celsius.

Near Rohtang Pass with an altitude of 14,000 ft where the temperature is minus 10 degrees Celsius, both men and women commemorated yoga on a snow-covered slope.

In front of Vasudhara Glacier, with an altitude of 13,000 ft, both men and women personnel practised yoga.

ITBP personnel deployed in Left Wing Extremism performed yoga in Rajnandgaon and Kondagaon in Chattisgarh.