Peaks in less than one month!
Baljeet Kaur has become the first Indian mountaineer to scale four 8,000-metre peaks in less than a month.
As per the information, she successfully climbed Mount Lhotse, which is the fourth highest mountain in the world.
According to the statement given by Pasang Sherpa, Director at Peak Promotion Pvt Ltd said, Kaur, the 27-year-old climber from Himachal Pradesh, scaled Mt Lhotse on Sunday and became the first Indian climber to have climbed four 8000-meter peaks in a single season.
Further said, Baljeet and Mingma submitted Mt Annapurna I (8,091-metre) on April 28 and Mt Kanchenjunga (8,586-metre) on May 12. On May 21, they scaled Mt Everest (8,849 metre), Pasang said.
She successfully scaled the world's fourth-highest peak with her guide Mingma Sherpa, he said, adding that it was Kaur's fourth successful climb this spring season.
“Meri beti ne jo Kar dikhaya hai, Woh toh hamare liye sabse uncha Kam hai (Our daughter’s feat is the highest honour for us),” Baljeet comes from a humble background. Baljeet is one of the three siblings and would permanently extend a helping hand to her mother, Shanti Devi.
Meanwhile, she has also scaled other mountains, she has 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.
Congratulating Kaur, Indian Mountaineering Basis (IMF) president Harshwanti Bisht started 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.
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