Two Indian army officers Lieutenant Colonel Servesh Dhadwal and Colonel Amit Bisht have been awarded the prestigious Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2020 by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports .The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award is the highest adventure sports honour in India that is awarded annually by Ministry of youth affairs and sports .
Indian Army officer Colonel Amit Bisht, Sena Medal was awarded for his land activites . Bisht is posted as Principal in Nehru Institute of Mountaineering , Uttarakhand . The officer has scaled more than 20 unscaled and unnamed technical difficult peaks in India and abroad . Recently he also scaled mount Everest .
Indian Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Servesh Dhadwal has been awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2020 for his achievements in skydiving. Dhadwal is the Chief Instructor of the Indian Army Skydiving team. Dhadwal has imparted skydiving training to Special Forces of the Indian Army and National Security Guards. Dhadwal has gained several certifications and licenses from the United States Parachuting Association.
Dhadwal has conducted more than 35 Basic and Refresher Skydiving Courses training for more than 850 personnel wherein he carried out more than 7,000 skydives since 2008 and more than 5,000 skydives in the past 5 years. The ace skydiving instructor Dhadwal has been a member of the top-secret intelligence unit Technical Support Division which was constituted after the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai .
