Ratnesh Pandey of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Minali. Pandey scaled the Mount Everest in on May 21, 2016. By reciting the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana, he became first person in the world to the recite national anthem of their own country at the top of Mount Everest, as reported by The Free Press Journal. In September 2016, Pandey climbed Mount Damavand, Iran's highest mountain and Mount Sabalan, its third-highest montain, in a mountaineering expedition organized in Iran by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation. In April 2015, Ratnesh Pandey succeeded in climbing 22,000 feet of Mount Everest, but could
Jana Gana Mana Video video for the instrumental version of the video. The final instrumental was a 40-piece string section along with Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, Vikku Vinayakram and other instrumental maestros of Indian classical music. Most of the performances included two generations of maestros - fathers and sons. In Kanika’s words, "It was a huge musical unification... this anthem has so much of soul." It is also notable that during the filming of the anthem with the Ladakh Scouts, there were about 500 jawans who fought during the Kargil war. The producers hoisted a huge flag about 40 feet long for the video