Led by Captain Sanjay Kulkarni (who retired in 2016 as a lieutenant general), the platoon of hardy Kumaoni soldiers quickly occupied the area around Bilafondla, securing the strategic heights overlooking the Siachen Glacier and sealing off the approaches from PakistanOccupied Kashmir (POK) to Ladakh.
Simultaneously, a platoon of Ladakh Scouts was airlifted to Sia La, in the northern glacier, at an altitude of 5,589 metres (18,336 ft). These natural mountain troops were even better acclimatised for high altitude operations, so they were given the higher objective.
Soon, about 300-odd Indian troops were positioned on the strategically important peaks and passes of the Saltoro Ridge. By the time the Pakistan Army reacted by sending its troops to dislodge them, Indian soldiers had already occupied crucial peaks and passes, snatching an invaluable tactical advantage.
Thus began Operation Meghdoot India's bold military response to what New Delhi calls Pakistan's "cartographic aggression" in the uncharted territory of Ladakh, north of map reference NJ9842, where New Delhi and Islamabad had agreed the Line of Control (LOC) ran up to.
One of the key figures in the bold Indian decision-making of that time was a colourful mountaineer, Colonel Narendra 'Bull' Kumar. Ever ready to set off on an expedition, Bull Kumar discovered in the late 1970s that Pakistan was hosting European mountaineering expeditions on the Saltoro Ridge, thereby establishing its claim to those ranges.
Persuading the Indian military and mountaineering hierarchy to establish Indian counter-claims, Bull Kumar led a team from the army's High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) to climb the 23,400 feet-high Teram Kangri II in 1978. "During the expedition, I found signs of German, Japanese, Pakistani and American expeditions. Pakistan had already sent about 50 expeditions," Kumar told before his death in December 2020.
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