Indo-Argentine Army Team Scales Mt Kamet and Mt Abi Gamin

The correct answer is Mt Kanchenjunga and Mt Nanda Devi. Mt Kamet stands in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand and is the third-highest mountain within India, which places exactly those two peaks above it. The joint Indo-Argentine team topped it on 21 September 2026 at a height of 7,756 metres, four days after it had climbed Mt Abi Gamin. Option B is wrong because it replaces Nanda Devi with a Karakoram peak that does not sit in the order being asked about. Option C is wrong because Trishul, although a well-known Garhwal summit, is lower than Kamet and cannot stand above it in the ranking. Option D is wrong because Nun and Kun are Ladakh peaks and neither of them outranks Kamet. Candidates should pair the name of the peak with its district, its state and its position in the list of Indian summits.

The correct answer is Lieutenant Colonel Chirag Chatterjee. He headed the party of 35 climbers, of whom 25 belonged to the Indian Army and 10 to the Argentine Army, and the group was flagged off from the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi on 21 August 2026. Option A is a tempting trap: General Dhiraj Seth is the Chief of the Army Staff and he flagged the team in on its return, but he did not lead the climb itself, and examinations often test precisely that difference between the officer who sends off or receives a team and the officer who commands it. Options C and D name officers who have no part in this expedition and are offered only as plausible-sounding distractors. Along with the leader, remember the split of the team between the two armies and the date on which it set out.

The correct answer is the third. The two armies first climbed together on Mt Aconcagua at 6,962 metres in Mendoza, Argentina, in January 2025, then on Mt Kun at 7,077 metres in the Suru valley of Ladakh in August 2025, and the Uttarakhand outing of this year was therefore the third in the series. Options A and B are wrong because they ignore the two earlier ventures that the Ministry of Defence lists by name, peak and month. Option D is wrong because no fourth or fifth joint climb has taken place; the series has run to three. A useful way to hold this is by the pattern of the venues, one in the Andes of Argentina followed by two in the Indian Himalaya, first in Ladakh and then in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand.