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List of Mount Everest records of India

This is list of Mount Everest records of Indian nationals have achieved.[1][2][3][4]

Indian Navy expedition on the Everest summit, 2017

Records edit

Year wise records edit

2023 edit

  • Yaashi Jain is a Chhattisgarh-based mountaineer, who summited Mount Everest on 17 May 2023 and Mount Lhotse on 18 May 2023 within 26 hrs. of time becoming the youngest woman mountaineer to summit both. She has also climbed 4/7 continents' highest peaks.[5]

2019 edit

  • Aditi Vaidya and Anuja Vaidya become the first Gujarati sisters [women] from Gujarat state to summit Mount Everest on 22 May 2019 in first attempt.[16]
  • Amgoth Tukaram [20 years] from Thakkellapally Tanda, Rangareddy District, Telangana. Summit date May 22, 2019 [17]
  • Megha Parmar an Indian mountaineer born in Bhoj Nagar village, Sehore district summited Mount Everest on May 22, 2019, becoming the first woman from Madhya Pradesh to do so.[18][19]

2018 edit

2017 edit

  • Anshu Jamsenpa, from Bomdilla in Arunachal Pradesh, became the first woman to make a dual ascent of Mount Everest within a span of five days, setting the record for fastest double ascent in a single climbing season by a woman. This is a new world record set by the woman who broke the previous record of Nepal's Chhurim Sherpa, who had ascended Mount Everest twice in a week in 2012. Jamsenpa reached the summit of the world's highest mountain for the second time on 21 May 2017.[24]
  • Indian Navy undertook a momentary expedition to Mount Everest in 2017 specially termed "Sagartal se Sagarmatha" meaning "Seabed to Summit" where in the ceremonial ice-axe was taken underwater to the lowest sea-bed in Karwar and was successfully taken atop the World's Highest Point. 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 Maharana (COM I) had successfully summited the peak at 0630hrs on 21 May 2017. Members of team B stood test of time and sustained prolonged stay at 6400m high camp II. They displayed true grit and determination by not giving up in adverse weather conditions but awaited patiently to scale the highest peak in the world on the first available opportunity and had successfully summited Mount Everest, 8848 m at 0730 hrs on 27 May 17. The team consisted of Lt Cdr Hari Prasath, Hariom (PO), Sandeep Singh (LPT), Ashish Gupta (LA AH) and Avinash Bhawane (MA I). Apart from the main expedition team, 02 members of the support team Sachin Kanjalkar (LMA) and Manoj Adari (LMA) successfully summited Mount Lhotse at 1000 hrs on 25 May 2017. Mount Lhotse is the sister peak of Mount Everest. Standing at 8516M, it is the fourth highest peak in the world after Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga.
  • Oil major ONGC's 3 employees Yogendar Garbiyal, from Garbyang Village in Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, Rahul Jarngal from Hiranagar, J&K and Ngayaising Jagoi scaled Mount Everest on 27 May 2017 as a part of ONGC Mission Everest 2017. Their team was led by famous Indian mountaineer Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu who reached the summit at 06:10 am along with Yogendar. Rahul and Jagoi reached the summit at 07:00am. Three more ONGC employees Nirmal Kumar from Doda, J&K, Santosh Kumar SIngh from Pithoragarh, UK and Prabhat Gaurav from Bihar summited a day later on 28 May 2017

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2016 edit

  • An all-girls 10-member expedition put some people on the summit.[26] This team came across the stricken Bengal climbers and tried to help them.[26]

International records by Indians edit

Record name Age Person Date Ref.
Youngest woman mountaineer to summit Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse within record 26 hours. 24 Yaashi Jain 17 May 2023 [27]
First IAS to summit twice Ravindra Kumar 2013, 2015 [28]
First woman to summit twice Santosh Yadav 1992, 1993 [29]
Youngest female to climb Mount Everest 13 years and 11 months Malavath Purna 25 May 2014 [30][31]
Youngest woman up to Summit Everest up to that time 19 years 35 days Dicky Dolma 10 May 1993 [32]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time 24 years, 215 days Santosh Yadav 12 May 1992
Youngest woman to summit up to that time 30 years 28 days Bachendri Pal 23 May 1984 [33]
Oldest person to climb Mount Everest from North side and oldest civilian to climb Mount Everest up to that time 52 years Debabrata Mukherjee (b 1962) 25 May 2014 [34]
Oldest person to climb Mount Everest from South up to that time 56 years S C Negi Additional DIG BSF (b 8 March 1950)[35] 24 May 2006 [36]
Oldest person to climb Mount Everest up to that time 42 years, 6 months Sonam Gyatso (b 1922) 22 May 1965 [33]
First person to reach the summit from three different routes (South Col, North Col and Kangshung Face) Kushang Sherpa 1993- 2003 [37]

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First twins to climb Mount Everest together Tashi and Nungshi Malik May 19, 2013 [39]
Female amputee (one leg), summitted Arunima Sinha May 21, 2013 [40]
Youngest person to trek to Everest Base Camp on foot 3 Years & 7 months Heyansh Kumar 23 April 2022 [41]
Youngest person to trek to Everest Base Camp (Nepal) 5 Harshit Saumitra October 2014 [42]
First dual ascent made by a woman on Mount Everest's summit within five days Anshu Jamsenpa 21 May 2017 [43]
Youngest girl to trek to Everest Base Camp (Nepal) 5 Prisha Lokesh 20 June 2023 [44]
Oldest Indian who scaled Mount Everest to pay tribute to his beloved wife Age 60 Years & 6 months Sharad Kulkarni 23 May 2023 [45]

See also edit

References edit

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