Karpola Pass October 1962
PLA troops overrun Indian Troops....the approach to the base of Karpola Pass could best be described as progress made slowly and deliberately on sharply undulating terrain with short and measured steps. Karpola was a steep and narrow pass at a height of 16000 feet frightening even to look up.
In the words of Brig Dalvi 'Karpola is an awesome sight…It is practically vertical and strewn with loose boulders there was danger to the person below- the pass was very narrow being barely 15 feet wide at the summit'. I could not have described it any better. I must have been apprehensive and uncertain about my ability of negotiating it in my present condition since I was dead tired. It was soon going to be dark night comes early in mountains and we could not stay where we were. Both of us started up towards the summit taking one or two steps at a time stopping from time to time and looking up to check on our Progress....
Brig lakshman Singh, VSM (Retd)
Karpola Aerial Photograph
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