Miracle in Antarctica – The Forgotten Story of Dakshin Gangotri
India’s unmatched triumph retold by its champions In December 1983, Dr. Harsh Kumar Gupta, a geophysicist and seismologist and now a Padma Shri recipient, is sent to Antarctica to lead a mission then thought impossible: build Dakshin Gangotri–India’s first scientific base-station there–before the end of the Antarctic summer, a fleeting timeframe of barely 60 days. […]