Mount Everest  

On 21 May 2013, Arunima Sinha made history by becoming the world’s first female amputee to scale Mount Everest. She has authored a book titled ‘Born Again on the Mountain,’ in which she provides glimpses into her life’s struggles.

A 12-year old Mumbai student, Kaamya Karthikeyan recently set a record of becoming the youngest in the world to summit Mt. Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, South America. Kaamya, a Class VII student of Navy Children School, achieved the feat atop the 6962 metres tall mountain on February 1 where she unfurled the Indian Tricolour. No stranger to tall mountains, Kaamya had summited Ladakh's 6,260 metres Mt. Mentok Kangri II, under extreme cold weather conditions on August 24, 2019. Let’s find out more about this young mountaineer and her journey in this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer.

 

In this episode of Not For Women Only with Sunita Iyer, let's take a look at a few lesser known aspects of Bachendri Pal’s life, which we think every Indian must know.

Hello and welcome to this episode of DePress Room, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how a Nepalese national broke a world record for climbing 14 highest mountains. 

Poorna is based on a true story of Malavath Poorna, a tribal girl from Telangana who created history on May 25, 2014 by becoming the youngest girl in the world to scale the Mount Everest at the age of 13