{"id":12198,"date":"2023-06-18T11:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12198"},"modified":"2025-03-30T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:26:32","slug":"what-is-soul-of-steel-himalayan-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-soul-of-steel-himalayan-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Soul of Steel Himalayan Challenge\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Soul of Steel Himalayan Challenge:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The challenge s<strong>upported by the Indian Army in collaboration with Conquer Land Air Water (CLAW) Global<\/strong> was <strong>launched<\/strong> by defence minister <strong>on January 14 at Dehradun<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The campaign was <strong>initiated on the 120th Raising Year of the 9<\/strong> <strong>(Independent)<\/strong> <strong>Mountain Brigade.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>based on the lines of the \u2018Ironman triathlon\u2019<\/strong>, a long-distance triathlon held in Europe which tests an individual&#8217;s physical capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative is <strong>aimed at enabling life skill training and youth development<\/strong>. It is also expected to <strong>boost global promotion of adventure tourism<\/strong> <strong>in Uttarakhand.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was a <strong>unique blend of specialised skills<\/strong>, including <strong>high altitude mountaineering,<\/strong> <strong>extreme cold survival, psychological and physical endurance<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The challenge <strong>opened the domain of niche military skills to an average person<\/strong>, who wishes to challenge their physical and psychological limits.<\/li>\n<li>It attracted interest from 1,401 (including 94 women) highly skilled athletes, adventure sports enthusiasts and armed forces aspirants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>These applicants were put through a gruelling two-stage screening process<\/strong>, of which <strong>only 23<\/strong> (including two women) <strong>were finally chosen<\/strong> to undergo a <strong>10-week extensive training<\/strong> in endurance, mountaineering, survival and rescue skills under a joint team of experts from the armed forces and CLAW Global.<\/li>\n<li>The participants were <strong>trained to operate beyond the assumed limits of their body<\/strong>, to discover the limitless realms of their mind, consciousness and spirit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In the final phase<\/strong> of the challenge, <strong>18 \u2018Soul of Steel\u2019 warriors set out on a challenge to compete as teams of three along the rugged mountainous terrain of the Garhwals, <\/strong>at <strong>an altitude of 17,000 feet and covered a distance of 65 km<\/strong> through glaciers, ice walls, rock faces and snow-capped Himalayan peaks.<\/li>\n<li>The challenge <strong>tested their self-sustained mountain climbing, survival, navigation skills, psychological endurance and physical toughness.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Ironman triathlon?<\/h3>\n<p>An Ironman Triathlon is one of a series of long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC), consisting of a 2.4-mile (3.9 km) swim, a 112-mile (180.2 km) bicycle ride and a marathon 26.22-mile (42.2 km) run completed in that order, a total of 140.6 miles (226.3 km). It is widely considered one of the most difficult one-day sporting events in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/india\/soul-of-steel-backed-by-indian-army-extreme-himalayan-challenge-a-test-beyond-assumed-physical-limits-8104405.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>\u2018Soul of Steel\u2019: Backed by Indian Army, Extreme Himalayan Challenge a Test Beyond Assumed Physical Limits<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soul of Steel Himalayan Challenge  was based on the lines of the \u2018Ironman triathlon\u2019, a long-distance triathlon held in Europe which tests an individual&#8217;s physical capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}