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11 Indians climb Everest in a single day
Kathmandu/Pune, May 21 (PTI) Marking a historic feat, 11
Indians, including a woman and a 19-year-old girl, conquered
the Mount Everest Thursday, a day that also saw a Nepalese
Sherpa climbing the world's highest peak for a record 19th
time.
Ten members of a team from the Uttarkashi-based Nehru
Institute of Mountaineering, led by NIM principal Col Mangal
Murthi Masur, reached the 8,848-metre summit Thursday morning.
"The 10 members, divided in two groups of five each,
climbed the summit at 0500 hours and 0600 hours," an official
of the leading mountaineering institute told PTI.
Krishna Patil, a 19-year-old Pune girl, also conquered
the Mount Everest, becoming the first Maharashtrian woman
mountaineer to perform the feat.
"Krishna, who was part of the ten-member team 'Asian
Trekking' commissioned in Nepal scaled the dream peak at 0700
hours Thursday," his mother Ranjana Patil told PTI, quoting a
satellite comminication received from her daughter.
The NIM climbing team also includes a woman, Kavita
Budathoki from Uttarakhand. The others are Naib Subedar Dinesh
Singh Rawat, Naib Subedar Pratap Singh Bisht, Naib Subedar
Surinder Singh, Subedar Sital Singh, Inspector Love Raj Singh,
Vishweshwar Prasad Semwal, Vinod Singh Gosain, Kushal Singh
Rana and Dashrath Singh, the NIM official said.
Krishna Patil also underwent training at Nehru Institute
of Mountaineering. The girl was the youngest member of the
squad comprising six Americans, two Germans and a Dutch woman,
all in their forties.
This year marks the 50 years of first Indian exepedition
to Everest as well as the 25th anniversary of the first Indian
woman conquering the summit.
The day also saw 49-year old Appa Sherpa of Nepal
climbing Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own
record in a journey which he dedicated to increasing awareness
on the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
"Appa reached the top of the Everest at 8 am Thursday,"
an official of the Nepal Tourism Board said.
The Sherpa, who first conquered the summit in 1990, was
leading the 'Eco Everest Expedition 2009'. The climbing team
has been collecting garbage from the route of Everest as part
of a campaign to restore the mountain to its original pristine
condition.
Born in the remote village of Thame as the son of a poor
yak herder, Appa currently lives in Salt Lake City in the US
and works as a climbing instructor. On May 22 last year, he
had climbed the Everest for the 18th time with an aim to raise
funds for a school in Thame.
Since Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first
climbed the Everest in 1953, the peak has been conquered more
than 3,000 times. PTI
Indians, including a woman and a 19-year-old girl, conquered
the Mount Everest Thursday, a day that also saw a Nepalese
Sherpa climbing the world's highest peak for a record 19th
time.
Ten members of a team from the Uttarkashi-based Nehru
Institute of Mountaineering, led by NIM principal Col Mangal
Murthi Masur, reached the 8,848-metre summit Thursday morning.
"The 10 members, divided in two groups of five each,
climbed the summit at 0500 hours and 0600 hours," an official
of the leading mountaineering institute told PTI.
Krishna Patil, a 19-year-old Pune girl, also conquered
the Mount Everest, becoming the first Maharashtrian woman
mountaineer to perform the feat.
"Krishna, who was part of the ten-member team 'Asian
Trekking' commissioned in Nepal scaled the dream peak at 0700
hours Thursday," his mother Ranjana Patil told PTI, quoting a
satellite comminication received from her daughter.
The NIM climbing team also includes a woman, Kavita
Budathoki from Uttarakhand. The others are Naib Subedar Dinesh
Singh Rawat, Naib Subedar Pratap Singh Bisht, Naib Subedar
Surinder Singh, Subedar Sital Singh, Inspector Love Raj Singh,
Vishweshwar Prasad Semwal, Vinod Singh Gosain, Kushal Singh
Rana and Dashrath Singh, the NIM official said.
Krishna Patil also underwent training at Nehru Institute
of Mountaineering. The girl was the youngest member of the
squad comprising six Americans, two Germans and a Dutch woman,
all in their forties.
This year marks the 50 years of first Indian exepedition
to Everest as well as the 25th anniversary of the first Indian
woman conquering the summit.
The day also saw 49-year old Appa Sherpa of Nepal
climbing Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own
record in a journey which he dedicated to increasing awareness
on the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
"Appa reached the top of the Everest at 8 am Thursday,"
an official of the Nepal Tourism Board said.
The Sherpa, who first conquered the summit in 1990, was
leading the 'Eco Everest Expedition 2009'. The climbing team
has been collecting garbage from the route of Everest as part
of a campaign to restore the mountain to its original pristine
condition.
Born in the remote village of Thame as the son of a poor
yak herder, Appa currently lives in Salt Lake City in the US
and works as a climbing instructor. On May 22 last year, he
had climbed the Everest for the 18th time with an aim to raise
funds for a school in Thame.
Since Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first
climbed the Everest in 1953, the peak has been conquered more
than 3,000 times. PTI
