List of Mount Everest records of India

Indian Navy expedition on the Everest summit, 2017

India has achieved many national records and has had a number of teams summit Mount Everest.[1][2][3][4]

Indian records

  • Sanjay Thakur highest restaurant in the world by Indians Triyagyoni -Soundararjan Palaniappan 18323 ft at Everest belt
  • Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu - climbed Mount Everest seven times
  • Bachendri Pal (Hindi: बचेंद्री पाल) - in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest[5]
  • Premlata Agarwal (Hindi: प्रेम लता अग्रवाल) - the first Indian woman mountaineer to complete the Seven Summits and one of the oldest Indian women mountaineer to summit Mount Everest, at age 48, in 2011
  • Gurgaon's 53-year-old Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl, a former Miss India finalist in 1985, became the oldest Indian woman to scale world’s highest peak Mt Everest on May 19, 2018.[6]

See also Category: Indian summiters of Mount Everest

2016

World records:

  • 19 May 2013: First female twins to scale Mt Everest (entered in Guinness World Records)
  • 16 December 2014: First siblings and twins to climb Seven Summits (highest peaks in all continents) (entered in Guinness World Records)
  • 21 April 2015: First siblings and twins to complete Adventurers Grand Slam and the Three Pole Challenge (entered in Guinness World Records)
  • 21 April 2015: Youngest persons ever to complete Adventurers Grand Slam and the Three Pole Challenge (entered in Guinness World Records)

National/regional records:

  • First South Asians to complete Adventurers Grand Slam and the Three Pole Challenge
  • Youngest South Asians and fastest Indian women to scale the Seven Summits
  • First Indian women to climb all Seven Summits in first attempt (overall 2nd Indian women)
  • Youngest and fastest South Asians to reach North and South Pole on skis (completed in less than 4 months)
  • First Indian and South Asian women to reach North and South Pole on skis

2016

  • Deepika Rathore achieved her second Mount Everest summiting (her first was in 2012).[7]
  • Suhail Sharma, an IPS officer, summited.[8]
  • An Indian team from Bengal suffered three fatalities.[9]
  • An all-girls 10-member expedition put some people on the summit.[10] This team came across the stricken Bengal climbers and tried to help them.[10]

2017

  • 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 Mt. 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.[11]
  • Madhusudan Patidar, a 20 year old from Indore, scaled the peak as part of an expedition which climbed Mt. Everest from the Chinese side.[12]
  • Yogendar Garbiyal, from Garbyang Village in Pithoragarh District of Uttarakhand, scaled Mt. Everest on 27 May 2017 as a part of ONGC Mission Everest 2017. He and Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu reached the summit at 06:10 am from the South Side (Nepal).[13]

International records by Indians

Overall records achieved by Indians

Highest pop up restaurant in the world Sanjay Thakur India 🇮🇳 29th May 2018 http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/commercial/2018/9/are-you-brave-enough-to-trek-to-the-worlds-highest-pop-up-restaurant-in-the-hima-539446
Oldest Indian woman to climb Mount Everest Premlata Agarwal India 21 May 2011 [14]
First IAS to summit twice Ravindra Kumar  India 2013, 2015 [15]
First woman to summit twice Santosh Yadav  India 1992, 1993 [16]
Youngest female to climb Mount Everest 13 years and 11 months Malavath Purna  India 25 May 2014 [17][18]
Youngest boy to summit Mount Everest from North Ridge (Chinese side) 20 years 10 months 2 days Madhusudan Patidar  India 21 May 2017 [19]
Youngest woman up to Summit Everest up to that time 19 years 35 days Dicky Dolma  India 10 May 1993 [20]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time 24 years, 215 days Santosh Yadav  India 12 May 1992
Youngest woman to summit up to that time 30 years 28 days Bachendri Pal  India 23 May 1984 [21]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest from North side and oldest civilian to climb M. Everest up to that time 52 years Debabrata Mukherjee (b 1962)  India (West Bengal) 25 May 2014 [22]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest from South up to that time 56 years S C Negi Additional DIG BSF (b 8 March 1950)[23]  India (Himachal Pradesh) 24 May 2006 [24]
Oldest person to climb M. Everest up to that time 42 years, 6 months Sonam Gyatso (b 1922)  India (Sikkim) 22 May 1965 [21]
First person to reach the summit from three different routes (South Col, North Col and Kangshung Face) Kushang Sherpa  India 1993- 2003 [25]

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First twins to climb Mount Everest together; summitted Tashi and Nungshi Malik  India May 19, 2013 [27]
Female amputee (one leg), summitted Arunima Sinha  India May 21, 2013 [28]
Youngest person to trek to Everest Base Camp (Nepal) 5 Harshit Saumitra  India October 2014 [29]
First dual ascent made by a woman on Mount Everest's summit within five days Anshu Jamsenpa  India 21 May 2017 [30]
First dual ascent made by a woman on Mount Everest's summit within five days 39 Asha Jhajhria  India 22 May 2017 [31]

Images

Tashi and Nungshi were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together.

See also

References

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  15. ↑ "पानी के जहाज से लेकर तय किया माउंट एवरेस्ट का सफरनामा, किया कारनामा!". dainikbhaskar. 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
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