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The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. [2] 10 May 1993 Santosh Yadav: The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice. She climbed to the summit for the second time and became the first woman in the world to ever climb Mount Everest twice. Her first summit was in 1992 as part of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Expedition to Mount Everest [3]
Country Date Male climber Date Female climber References Afghanistan 2023-05-17: Samuel Dean Sidiqi [1] [2] [3] [4] Albania 2012-05-26: Gjergj Bojaxhi [5]: 2017-05-22 ...
The Expedition was also inline with honouring the India's first successful expedition to Mount Everest led by legend of Indian Mountaineering Capt MS Kohli (IN)in May 1965. the expedition team consisted of 18 climbers and 06 support team. 04 climbers from Team A which includes Lt Anant Kukreti, Lt Cdr C S Yadav, Lt Shashank Tewari and Bikas ...
After scaling Mount Everest on 19 May 2013 they completed the Explorers Grand Slam on 15 July 2015 in just over two years. [14] They are the first Indian and South Asians to complete the Explorers Grand Slam. [15] In Dec 2015, the twins scaled Aoraki (Mt Cook) New Zealand's tallest peak becoming first female twins to do so. [16]
Sunita Singh Choken (born c. 1985) is an Indian mountaineer and activist. She climbed Mount Everest in 2011. Afterwards she did two long-distance cycle trips to promote both the environment and the "Save, educate the girl child" campaign (Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao). She has received several awards including the 2016 Nari Shakti Puraskar.
Choudhary is a trained mountaineer and polar explorer. Among his notable achievements are: Mount Everest (8,848.86 m): Neeraj successfully summited the world's highest peak in 31 May 2021 as part of an expedition organized by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, under the aegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of India, shortly after recovering from COVID-19.
The first and only team Arjuna award to date was presented in 1965 to the twenty mountaineers of the successful Indian Everest expedition of 1965. [2] [3] Individually, four mountaineers in 1981, two mountaineers in 1984 including Bachendri Pal, India's first woman to scale Mount Everest, [4] and three adventurers in 1986 were awarded the ...
[24] [25] [7] This was a feat that was considered by some as greater than climbing Everest. For 45 years numerous expeditions tried the ascent but failed. [26] [27] [19] He wrote in the American Alpine Club's publication that the team consisted entirely of personnel from the Indian Army – sixteen climbers and two doctors. [24]