The Duggar Gaurav Adventure Award 2026, the highest honour of Tawi Trekkers J&K, will be conferred upon three mountaineers who recently scaled Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.
The awardees are Anjali Devi, a resident of Sunkhal village in Kathua district, Bavinder Singh of Seri village in Reasi district, and Satish Kumar of Laroka village in Rajouri district.
Besides, the Narinder Singh Slathia Dedication Award, the club’s highest award for dedication and service, will be presented to Upkar Singh Jamwal, Chairman of Aryan Oriental Convent Higher Secondary School, Udhampur, in recognition of his exemplary and invaluable services to the club over the past nearly three decades.
The decision was taken unanimously at a specially convened meeting of the core members of the club, chaired by the club’s patron and former Legislator, Ashwani Sharma, here.
Among those who participated in the deliberations were co-chairman Zorawar Singh Jamwal; advisors Ram Khajuria and Vivek Chauhan; working president Shawetica Khajuria; vice president Mridhu Padha; general secretary Sonam Sidharth; international sport climber, Shivani Charak; and senior members Sushil Singh, Shashi Kant Sharma, Navneet Gupta, Binder Pal Singh, Sunil Chakharia, Sakshi Magotra, and Ananjan Raghav Khajuria.
The awards will be presented at a grand function to be organized on October two, marking the 44thFoundation Day of the club. On the occasion, a colourful souvenir highlighting the achievements of the three Everesters and Upkar Singh Jamwal, along with notable accomplishments of other club members in mountaineering, sport climbing, and trekking, will also be released.
“The Duggar Gaurav Adventure Award was instituted by Tawi Trekkers J&K in 2021 to recognize and showcase exceptional achievements of sports persons from the Jammu region in adventure sports, particularly mountaineering and sport climbing,” informed advisor of the club, Ram Khajuria.
Accordingly, in 2021, the inaugural year of the award, all eleven Everest summiteers from Jammu were honoured with the Duggar Gaurav Adventure Award at a function held on October 2, 2021,at Amar
Singh Club, Jammu. Subsequent recipients include Shivani Charak (2022), the only girl from Jammu and Kashmir to participate in the Asian Games, and Mohit Knathia (2025), the youngest mountaineer from Jammu and Kashmir to summit Mount Everest at the age of 17.
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Caption: Members of Tawi Trekkers J&K pose for a group photograph after a meeting held at Jammu.
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