Colonel Sonam Wangchuk (Retd), Kargil war hero and ‘Lion of Ladakh’, died of heart attack at 61 at his residence in Ladakh. He was one of the earliest heroes of the 1999 Kargil War and a Mahavir Chakra awardee and his career, spanning three decades and multiple theatres, came to be defined by a single night on a frozen ridge at 5,500 metres.
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