Father-son duo unfurls ‘say no to drugs' banner atop Mount Elbrus
The 42-year-old former Indian Army soldier, Lenkala Mahipal Reddy and his son, Vivekananda Reddy, who is in Class 9, scaled the 18,510 ft (5,642 meters) Mount Elbrus, located in southwestern Russia, on Aug 2.
"We braved rough and windy weather to reach the summit," Mahipal Reddy, a constable in the excise department based in Karimnagar, told TOI on Wednesday. After their summit, they returned to India on August 5.
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Peddapalli district collector Koya Sriharsha felicitated the father and son at his office on Wednesday, appreciating them for their efforts.
"Perhaps we are the first father-son duo to climb the peak," said Mahipal Reddy.
While it was Vivekananda's first summit, for Mahipal, it was not his first rodeo A seasoned mountaineer who has scaled several peaks, Mahipal himself provided his son with the training needed to undertake this mammoth mission.
He had climbed Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 metres) in Tanzania once in June 2019 and again in Jan 2025. In India, he has climbed several other mountains, including Mount Kang Yatze (6,400 metres), Mount Yunam (6,159 metres), Mount Friendship (5,287 metres) and Mount Patalsu (4,250 metres).
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After serving a decade in the army, Mahipal joined the excise department in 2014 as a constable. "Climbing mountains and mountainous regions was something I did in the army. I am used to it. However, after joining the excise department, I took it up as a way of spreading the anti-drug message," he said.
Working in the excise department has brought him into contact with numerous cases of addiction, and he therefore feels it is his duty to spread the anti-drug message in every possible way.
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