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A few words on the men who can walk the terrain blindfolded
Imagine: at 18,000 feet, you have to reach the next post ahead with your team of four, to relieve the men at Qazi Post, at 22,000 feet. Imagine there has been heavy snow fall. Imagine also that you had seen all the crevices and boulders on your way down, but the land is now devoid of a landmark, a flattened chaadar of virgin snow. But move you must, for that is the order, so how do you find the way, all the while shivering at the thought of a crevice gobbling you, throwing you down to a -200 degree pit from where none will ever hear your cries! During our trek, at every critical point on the glacier, a man fully dressed from head to toe in white, wind-shielding clothes, turned up. He guided us to the ladders across the crevices, took the correct turn at certain points, though there are no road maps or sign posts in this cold desert.
He was there when our team reached the mid point between two camps, where another like him was already there with a special ration of chocolates, juice, poori and jam. He would smilingly serve tea with the porters. He was the one who would start first from every point, but would immediately return if someone was left far behind, to help him find the way at these dangerous heights, where visibility often falls to a few feet. He is called the Link Commander, the omnipresent soldier who knows the way blindfolded. During the movements, when people climb up or down from posts, they are accompanied by these eyes and ears of the army.
Soldier Harpreet will get married in December and starts laughing once asked about his job. He is a Link Commander and is based at Camp 2. His area of responsibility is between half points of Camp 1 and Camp 3. Like any other Link Commander, his everyday journey starts much before others, because he has to be at the designated points much before others reach. When the civilian trekking team reached at the half point from Base Camp, Harpreet was waiting for us with juice and chocolates.
The link commander is there at every half point, where he reports to OP Baba, the soldier-saint, about the movement and seeks permission to move further. In our team, Lt Col AL Maini reported to OP Baba and then Harpreet gave his report and sought blessings and permission to move ahead. When I asked him about his responsibility, he first laughed for sometime and then said: “Sir, here every person is assigned a specific task. I don’t think I am doing anything special. If I had not done this, somebody else would.”
Theirs is a huge responsibility. Camp commanders keep precise information about every movement, as this decides the ration and place to sleep at night. There are four Link Commanders at every camp. Two move to half point for the higher camp and the other two to the lower camp half point. But for them, there is no half points on duty, for they must move all the time.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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A few words on the men who can walk the terrain blindfolded
Imagine: at 18,000 feet, you have to reach the next post ahead with your team of four, to relieve the men at Qazi Post, at 22,000 feet. Imagine there has been heavy snow fall. Imagine also that you had seen all the crevices and boulders on your way down, but the land is now devoid of a landmark, a flattened chaadar of virgin snow. But move you must, for that is the order, so how do you find the way, all the while shivering at the thought of a crevice gobbling you, throwing you down to a -200 degree pit from where none will ever hear your cries! During our trek, at every critical point on the glacier, a man fully dressed from head to toe in white, wind-shielding clothes, turned up. He guided us to the ladders across the crevices, took the correct turn at certain points, though there are no road maps or sign posts in this cold desert.He was there when our team reached the mid point between two camps, where another like him was already there with a special ration of chocolates, juice, poori and jam. He would smilingly serve tea with the porters. He was the one who would start first from every point, but would immediately return if someone was left far behind, to help him find the way at these dangerous heights, where visibility often falls to a few feet. He is called the Link Commander, the omnipresent soldier who knows the way blindfolded. During the movements, when people climb up or down from posts, they are accompanied by these eyes and ears of the army.
Soldier Harpreet will get married in December and starts laughing once asked about his job. He is a Link Commander and is based at Camp 2. His area of responsibility is between half points of Camp 1 and Camp 3. Like any other Link Commander, his everyday journey starts much before others, because he has to be at the designated points much before others reach. When the civilian trekking team reached at the half point from Base Camp, Harpreet was waiting for us with juice and chocolates.
The link commander is there at every half point, where he reports to OP Baba, the soldier-saint, about the movement and seeks permission to move further. In our team, Lt Col AL Maini reported to OP Baba and then Harpreet gave his report and sought blessings and permission to move ahead. When I asked him about his responsibility, he first laughed for sometime and then said: “Sir, here every person is assigned a specific task. I don’t think I am doing anything special. If I had not done this, somebody else would.”
Theirs is a huge responsibility. Camp commanders keep precise information about every movement, as this decides the ration and place to sleep at night. There are four Link Commanders at every camp. Two move to half point for the higher camp and the other two to the lower camp half point. But for them, there is no half points on duty, for they must move all the time.
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
Read these article :-
B-schooled in India, Placed Abroad (Print Version)
IIPM in Financial times (Print Version)
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The Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM)
IIPM Campus
ZEE BUSINESS BEST B SCHOOL SURVEY
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
1500-plus IIPM students placed across the country with 44 bagging international offers
IIPM set to beat economic slowdown
IIPM, GURGAON
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IIPM awards four Bengali novelists
The Hindu : Education Plus : Honour for IIPM
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