Highlights:
• Baljeet Kaur become first Indian mountaineer to scale four 8,000-meter peaks
• Scaled four mountain peaks within 25 days
• Mount Lhotse is the fourth peak Baljeet scale
Baljeet Kaur of Chandigarh on May 22 become the first Indian mountaineer to scale four 8,000-meter peaks back-to-back in less than a month when she summitted Mount Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain on the planet at 8,516 meters.
Finishing the Everest-Lhotse traverse, Kaur reached on the top of Lhotse on May 22 morning at 05.50. A day earlier, she had scaled Mount Everest on may 22 at 4.30am native time.
“Kaur scaled Lhotse along with her information Mingma Sherpa and is expected to returnon the base camp by May 23 morning,” stated Pasang Sherpa, the director of Peak Promotion, a Kathmandu-based mountaineering company.
Mount Lhotse, fourth mountain peak scaled with 25 days
Mount Lhotse is the fourth 8,000-meter peak, Kaur in her 27 years of age has scaled inside 25 days during the ongoing climbing season in Nepal.
Last month on April 28, Kaur, had scaled Mount Annapurna, the tenth highest mountain on the planet at 8,091 meters and on may 12 she summitted Mount Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain at 8,586 meters.
Other mountain peaks scaled by Baljeet
Hailing from Solan in Himachal Pradesh, Kaur had also climbed Mount Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters), the seventh highest mountain on the planet, final year, and is the primary Indian lady together with Gunbala Sharma from Rajasthan to scale Mount Pumori (7,161 meters) in 2021. By scaling Lhotse, Kaur has equalled the record of scaling 5 eight-thousanders set by Priyanka Mohite, a mountaineer from Maharashtra.
Mohite, 30, had turn into the primary Indian lady this year on may 2, when she had summited Mount Kanchenjunga, her fifth 8,000-meter peak.
Congratulating Kaur, Indian Mountaineering Basis (IMF) president Harshwanti Bisht stated her achievement would enhance girls mountaineering in India.
“Such a feat is extremely constructive for the ladies mountaineering in India. Increasingly more Indian girls climbers are breaking and setting new information, which in flip are encouraging extra expertise to come back ahead,” stated Bisht.
