Setting their sights on greater heights
6 years, 5 months ago

Setting their sights on greater heights

The Hindu  

The temperature was sub-zero. While 25-year-old Anand Babu hails from Yeddanapudi village, 22-year-old Sivaprasad comes from K. Bitragunta village. We reached the Uhuru peak at 8.20 a.m. on September 13,” said the mountaineers on their return to Ongole, proudly showing the certificates issued by the Kilimanjaro National Park authorities. They also had training at the Rock Climbing School run by ace mountaineer B. Shekhar Babu at Bhongir in Telangana. Anand Babu and Sivaprasad now look for sponsors to mount he highest peaks in six other continents.

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Telangana Mountaineer Vishwanath Karthikey Sets Eyes on Mt Everest
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Telangana Mountaineer Vishwanath Karthikey Sets Eyes on Mt Everest

Deccan Chronicle  

At just 16 years old, Padakanti Vishwanath Karthikey has already achieved what many can only dream of! This young mountaineer from Hyderabad has summited five of the highest peaks across seven continents and is now gearing up for his next big challenge. Padakanti Vishwanath Karthikey recently created history to become the youngest Indian to summit Mount Vinson, the highest peak …

17-year-old Mumbai teen conquers seven highest peaks on seven continents
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

17-year-old Mumbai teen conquers seven highest peaks on seven continents

India Today  

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a Class 12 student from Navy Children's School, Mumbai, has achieved the sensational feat of becoming the youngest female to scale the highest peaks on all seven continents. At just 17 years old, Kaamya completed the Seven Summits Challenge by climbing Mt Vinson in Antarctica on December 24, 2024, alongside her father, Commander S Karthikeyan. Her journey included …

17-year-old becomes youngest woman to complete Seven Summits challenge
2 months, 3 weeks ago

17-year-old becomes youngest woman to complete Seven Summits challenge

India Today  

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 17-year-old student from the Indian Navy Children's School in Mumbai, has etched her name in history as the youngest woman to scale the highest peaks on all seven continents. Kaamya achieved this remarkable milestone on December 24 when she scaled Antarctica’s Mount Vinson. Accompanied by her father, Commander S Karthikeyan of the Indian Navy, Kaamya conquered the …

Hyderabad teen summits highest peak in Antarctica
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Hyderabad teen summits highest peak in Antarctica

The Hindu  

At 16, when many of his age group wouldn’t have seen even a snow-clad mountain, Padakanti Vishwanath Karthikey charted out his own route to history to become the youngest Indian to summit Mt Vinson Massif, the highest peak in Antarctica. The 11th Standard student of Resonance Junior College in Hyderabad, achieved this magnificent feat last Tuesday as part of the …

Nepalese Sherpa, 18, Breaks World Record by Climbing 14 Peaks Above 8,000 Meters
5 months ago

Nepalese Sherpa, 18, Breaks World Record by Climbing 14 Peaks Above 8,000 Meters

China Daily  

Nepalese mountaineer Nima Rinji Sherpa has achieved a remarkable feat by becoming the youngest person in the world to summit all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters. He reached the summit of Mount Shishapangma in the Xizang autonomous region, China, on the morning of Oct 9. With this accomplishment, Sherpa has overtaken his uncle, Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, for the world record. …

A record-setting teen climber returns home to Nepal to a hero's welcome
5 months, 1 week ago

A record-setting teen climber returns home to Nepal to a hero's welcome

The Independent  

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Nepalese teenager sets world record by climbing all 14 of Earth’s highest peaks
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nepalese teenager sets world record by climbing all 14 of Earth’s highest peaks

The Independent  

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Nepali becomes youngest to climb world's 8,000 m peaks
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Nepali becomes youngest to climb world's 8,000 m peaks

The Hindu  

An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer on Wednesday broke the record for the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre peaks, his team said. Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet's 8,027-metre-high Shisha Pangma on Wednesday morning, completing his mission to stand on the world's highest peaks. 'Proud moment' Nima Rinji Sherpa, who already holds multiple records from …

At 16, Kaamya Karthikeyan Becomes Youngest Indian to Scale MT Everest
10 months ago

At 16, Kaamya Karthikeyan Becomes Youngest Indian to Scale MT Everest

Deccan Chronicle  

Jamshedpur:: Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 16-year-old mountaineer, has become the youngest Indian to climb Mt Everest from Nepal side, the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation said on Thursday. An official of the TSAF, which supported her endeavour, said Kaamya was accompanied by her father, Commander S Karthikeyan of the Indian Navy, during the journey to the highest peak on the earth. “After …

Navy officer's daughter, 16, is youngest Indian to scale Mount Everest from Nepal side
10 months ago

Navy officer's daughter, 16, is youngest Indian to scale Mount Everest from Nepal side

India Today  

A 16-year-old girl from Mumbai successfully scaled Mount Everest, becoming the youngest Indian mountaineer to scale the world's highest peak from the Nepal side, the Indian Navy said on Thursday. Kaamya Karthikeyan, a Class 12 student from Navy Children School in Mumbai, along with her father Cdr S Karthikeyan, embarked on their expedition to climb Mount Everest on April 3, …

84-year-old climber rescued from mountain in Nepal while seeking record
1 year, 10 months ago

84-year-old climber rescued from mountain in Nepal while seeking record

The Independent  

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Nepali sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 27th time, beating his own record
1 year, 10 months ago

Nepali sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 27th time, beating his own record

The Independent  

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Meet the first Indian woman to climb 8,000m plus peaks
2 years, 9 months ago

Meet the first Indian woman to climb 8,000m plus peaks

Hindustan Times  

Mountaineer Priyanka Mohite from Satara, Maharashtra, has become the first Indian woman to climb five 8,000m-plus peaks. Mountaineer Priyanka Mohite has also bagged the title of the first Indian woman to climb the 10th highest mountain peak, Mt Annapurna. It was a proud feeling to be acknowledged.” Mohite, who has also bagged the title of the first Indian woman to …

Virat Chandra conferred Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
3 years, 2 months ago

Virat Chandra conferred Rashtriya Bal Puraskar

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Hyderabad’s Virat Chandra Telukunta, the youngest to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania at the age of seven, was on Monday conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a virtual event. Chandra, who hails from Trimulgherry, climbed the Kilimanjaro, the tallest African mountain at about 5,895 metres, on March 6, 2021, along with his …

Spanish Mountaineer, 81, Trains for Himalayas in Tribute to Victims of Coronavirus
4 years, 4 months ago

Spanish Mountaineer, 81, Trains for Himalayas in Tribute to Victims of Coronavirus

News 18  

At 81 years old Spanish mountaineer Carlos Soria is training to tackle one of the world’s highest peaks, a challenge he will dedicate to elderly victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. “To all those who have disappeared because of this terrible pandemic, this terrible crisis, I want as an elderly person to dedicate it to them,” Soria said outside his home …

Nepali climber scales world's 14 highest peaks in 190 days
5 years, 4 months ago

Nepali climber scales world's 14 highest peaks in 190 days

India TV News  

A Nepali mountaineer has created history by scaling the world's 14 highest peaks in record 190 days after he climbed Mt Shishapangma in China on Tuesday. Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8,000 metres in seven …

Is Mount Everest getting crowded?
5 years, 9 months ago

Is Mount Everest getting crowded?

The Hindu  

A photograph shared by Nirmal Purja, a Nepalese mountaineer, showing hundreds of mountaineers queuing up to summit Everest recently turned the world’s attention to the crowding at the peak. I passed over 80 people in that stretch.” A narrower ‘good weather window’, a record 381 permits issued by the Nepal government and the fact that every hiker had to be …

Woman who scaled Everest twice in five days to focus on unclimbed peaks
7 years, 9 months ago

Woman who scaled Everest twice in five days to focus on unclimbed peaks

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A 38-year-old Indian climber who …

Reaching heights: MP mountaineer scales highest mountains of Iran
8 years, 6 months ago

Reaching heights: MP mountaineer scales highest mountains of Iran

Hindustan Times  

Ratnesh Pandey, known as the ‘mountain man’ of Madhya Pradesh, scaled the heights of Mount Damavand and Mount Sabalan in a mountaineering expedition organised in Iran by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation — UIAA. Ratnesh Pandey scaled the heights of Mount Damavand and Mount Sabalan in Iran. “Under this expedition, we scaled the only two water fall mountains in …

Overcoming the past and how! Meet Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to conquer Mount Everest
8 years, 9 months ago

Overcoming the past and how! Meet Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to conquer Mount Everest

India TV News  

New Delhi: The story of Arunima Sinha is not ordinary by any means. Sinha, who climbed the world’s highest peak at 10:55 am on May 21, 2013, was a member of the Eco Everest Expedition from the Tata Group. Sinha said her elder brother, Omprakash Sinha, a former CRPF jawan, encouraged her when she disclosed her willingness to climb the …

Youngest mountaineer scales new heights
9 years, 3 months ago

Youngest mountaineer scales new heights

The Hindu  

At 13, Jahnavi Sriperamubuduru, the young mountaineer from the city continues to amaze her admirers and the critics alike. Interestingly, Jahnavi along with her father Krishna Rao have also become the first-ever father-daughter duo to achieve this rare feat. It was a real struggle in the third phase and when I completed the 10{+t}{+h}highest peak at 4.30 p.m. local Australian …

Narendra Modi congratulates teenagers who climbed Mt Everest
10 years, 9 months ago

Narendra Modi congratulates teenagers who climbed Mt Everest

India TV News  

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday congratulated Poorna Malavath and Anand Kumar, two teenagers who recently climbed Mount Everest. "The prime minister congratulated the young achievers, and remarked they had achieved a great feat at a tender age," said a statement issued by the prime minister's office.Malavath, a school student in Nizamabad, Telangana, became the youngest female in the …

On top of the world, yet again
11 years, 9 months ago

On top of the world, yet again

The Hindu  

Premlata Agrawal, a 49-year-old home-maker from Jharkhand, looks like an average next door woman except that she has accomplished a Herculean task of scaling seven continental peaks. It was a proud moment for her and she basked in the glory of becoming the first Indian woman mountaineer to conquer seven summits – Vinson Massif peak, Aconcagua, Elbrus, Carstensz Pyramid, Mt. …

Arunachal woman scales Everest for third time
11 years, 10 months ago

Arunachal woman scales Everest for third time

The Hindu  

Anshu Jamshenpa of Arunachal Pradesh, who holds the record of being the only mother in the world to have scaled the Mount Everest twice in 10 days, scaled the peak again on Saturday for the third time. Among the six were Tarun Saikia of Assam, David Zohmangaiha of Mizoram and Ms. Wangsuk Myrthong of Meghalaya, who became the first mountaineers …

Everest boy wants to scale more heights, join army
14 years, 9 months ago

Everest boy wants to scale more heights, join army

Hindustan Times  

Six years ago when he started trekking in Pune at the age of 10, Arjun Bajpayee wouldn’t have imagined that his passion for adventure would lead him to the top of Mt. HT Image The 16-year-old student of Ryan International School in Noida followed his dreams and became the youngest Indian to scale the world’s highest peak on May 22 …

Trekking in Pune to top of Mt Everest
14 years, 9 months ago

Trekking in Pune to top of Mt Everest

Hindustan Times  

Six years ago when he started trekking in Pune at the age of 10, Arjun Bajpayee could not have imagined that his passion for adventure would lead him to the top of Mt Everest. HT Image The 16-year-old student of Ryan International School in Noida followed his dreams and became the youngest Indian to scale the world’s highest peak on …

13-year-old becomes youngest to top Mount Everest
14 years, 10 months ago

13-year-old becomes youngest to top Mount Everest

Hindustan Times  

Everest have become synonymous over the years. HT Image A 13-year-old from USA, Jordan Romero, became the youngest person atop the world’s highest peak. Mountaineering legend Apa Sherpa too created history by scaling the peak for a record 20th time. The youngest Indian atop the peak Bajpayee and two other climbers left for the final ascent from South Col on …

美13岁男孩挑战珠峰 有望成年龄最小登顶者
14 years, 11 months ago

美13岁男孩挑战珠峰 有望成年龄最小登顶者

China Daily  

If this 13-year-old American boy succeeds in his bid to climb Mount Everest, he has modest ambitions - pick a small piece of rock from the top of the world as a memento and wear it in a necklace. Romero said Mount Qomolangma, that straddles Nepal-China border, was part of his goal to climb the highest mountains on all seven …

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