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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]
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 ...
Male climber Date Female climber ... India: 1965-05-20: Avtar Singh Cheema [158] [159] 1984-05-23: ... Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions; References
Indian Mountaineering Foundation is an apex national body which organize and support, mountaineering and rock climbing expeditions at high altitudes in the Himalayas. The organization also promotes and encourages schemes for related adventure activities and environment-protection work in the Indian Himalayas .
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]
She climbed Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg, [27] which was arranged by raising funds with the help of a swami of Ramakrishna Mission, Vadodara. [28] She contacted Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, in 2011. [29]
[5] [6] [7] In 1965, he was a member of the first successful Indian expedition team to climb Mount Everest. [8] [3] [9] Singh also led many expeditions at The Doon School, where he was a geography teacher, and along with other Doon masters and students was instrumental in establishing a mountaineering culture in post-Independence India. [10]
[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]