The tricolour swayed proudly at a dizzying height — 14,500 feet above sea level — on Wednesday with a motorbike expedition team hoisting it at the world’s highest inhabited village in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul and Spiti district.

A team of four youths from Delhi, Chandigarh and Shimla set off from Shimla on August 13 on three motorbikes and unfurled the national flag at Kibber village on the 60th Independence day.

The expedition passed through Narkanda, Rampur, Recong Peo, Ki and Kaza enroute village Kibber. The team was led by 58-year-old Bijai Singh Rawat who has the distinction of conducting 18 such motorbike expeditions before this.

The three other participants included Sandeep Rawat, Mohit Verma and Rahul Verma.