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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]
Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl (born 9 February 1965) [3] became the oldest Indian woman to climb the world's tallest peak (8,848.86 m or 29,031.7 ft), when she summitted Mount Everest in May 2018, at the age of 53 years. [4] She also became the first woman from the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir to scale the mountain. [5]
He is the first Bengali to climb Mount Everest [2] and had successfully climbed five other eight-thousand-meter peaks besides Mount Everest. [3] [4] In 2019, the Government of India posthumously honored him with the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for the year 2018, the highest adventure sports honor in India. [5] He died in 2019. [6]
Malavath Poorna [a] (born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer. On 25 May 2014, Poorna climbed Mount Everest , aged 13 years and 11 months, the youngest female to have reached the summit. [ 1 ] Purna climbed Mount Elbrus , the highest peak in Europe on 27 July 2017.
In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest [5] [6] Phu Dorjee (d. 1987) in 1984 became the first Indian to make a solo ascent of Mount Everest and also the first to climb without supplemental oxygen. [7] [8] Santosh Yadav is the first Indian woman to summit twice (1992 and 1993)
Shivangi Pathak is an Indian mountaineer born in Hisar, Haryana in August 2002. [1] At age 16, she became India's youngest person to climb the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, on 16 May 2018 from the Nepal side. [2] [3] [4] She climbed Russia's highest peak Mount Elbrus in Europe on 2 September 2018. [5]
Nawang Gombu (1 May 1936 – 24 April 2011) [3] [4] was a Sherpa mountaineer who was the first man in the world to have climbed Mount Everest twice. [5] (p393)Gombu was born in Minzu, Tibet and later became an Indian citizen, as did many of his relatives including his uncle Tenzing Norgay.
Ajeet Bajaj (born 1965) is the first Indian to ski to the North Pole and complete the polar trilogy which entails skiing to the North Pole, South Pole and across the Greenland icecap. Bajaj and his daughter Deeya Bajaj were the first Indian father daughter team to climb Mt. Everest.