Mountains high, oceans deep, Satya’s conquered all of them

Satya at the South Pole. ‘The warmest temperature is minus 30 degrees Celsius and the real challenge is survival,’ he says. Photo/FILE

Satyabrata Dam is the only person alive to have led successful expeditions to the North and South Poles.

And to Mount Everest in the Himalayas — the highest mountain in the world which Sir Edmund Hilary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay conquered in 1953.