H. P. S.

Ahluwalia
Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia is an Indian mountaineer. He climbed the Mount Everest on 29 May 1965 along with his friends Rawat and Phu Dorji. In the Indo-Pakistan War of 1965, he was injured and confined to a wheelchair. He set up Indian Spinal Injury Society in 1993. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan award in 2002. Major Ahluwalia is also the chairman of the Rehabilitation Council of India and is a recipient of several awards like Padma Sri, Arjuna award, the National Award for the best work done in the field of Disability, the Order of the Khalsa (Nissan A Khalsa). He has written several books like Higher than Everest, Beyond the Himalayas, Everest is within you. He won the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award for lifetime achievement on August 29, 2009

Harish Kapadia
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Harish Kapadia
11 July 1945 (age 67) Mumbai, India Spouse(s) Geeta Kapadia Sonam Kapadia (son) Children (Deceased) Lt. Nawang Kapadia (son) Born Harish Kapadia (Born 11 July 1945) is a distinguished Himalayan Mountaineer from India. He has been awarded the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society, UK and the Life Time Achievement Award for Adventure by the President of India and the King Albert Mountain Award presented by The King Albert I Memorial Foundation. He has written numerous books and articles on the Indian Himalaya. He began climbing and trekking in the range around Bombay, the Western Ghats. His first visit to the Himalaya was almost 40 years ago[when?]. His main contribution to Himalayan climbing has been to explore unknown areas and, in number of cases, to open up climbing possibilities. Some of his major ascents have been of Devtoli (6788 m), Bandarpunch West (6102 m), Parilungbi (6166 m), in 1995, Lungser Kangri (6666 m) the highest peak of Rupshu in Ladakh. He led five international joint expeditions, four with the British and two with the French, to high peaks, such

as Rimo I (7385 m), Chong Kumdan Kangri I (7071 m), Sudarshan Parbat, and the Panch Chuli and Rangrik Rang groups. Earlier, in 1974 he fell in a crevasse at 6200 m, deep inside the formidable Nanda Devi Sanctuary. He was carried by his companions for 13 days to the base camp where a helicopter rescued him. He was operated for a dislocated hip-joint and had to spend two years walking on crutches. But that did not keep him out for too long and he has climbed for three decades after the injury. Kapadia has a degree in Commerce, Law and Management from Bombay University and he is a cloth merchant by profession. He has published twelve books. His Trek The Sahyadris has now become a standard reference for all trekkers in the Western Ghats. His other books, Exploring the Hidden Himalaya (with Soli Mehta) and High Himalaya Unknown Valleys and Meeting The Mountains cover his various trips to the Himalaya, while Spiti Adventures in the TransHimalaya, covers climbing and trekking in that region. He has been the editor of the Himalayan Journal for the past 28 years, bringing the journal to international standards and continuing it as a major authentic reference on the range. Kapadia has been elected an Honorary Member of the (British) Alpine Club. He was a Vice President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (19971999). He was awarded the IMF Gold Medal by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation in 1993. In 2003, the Queen approved the award of the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographic Society to him. He has been invited to many countries to lecture on his Himalayan exploits, and is a member of several organisations. He is married, and lives in Bombay. His son Lt. Nawang Kapadia, who was commissioned on September 2, 2000 in the Fourth Battalion the Third Gorkha Rifles, died while fighting Pakistan based terrorists in the jungles of Rajwar in Kupwara district of Srinagar on 11 November 2000. Since then Harish Kapadia has taken to lecturing about this conflict, particularly in the Siachen Glacier. He has been discussing a proposal for a peace park for Siachen and cleaning up the environmental damage there. Harish Kapadia has donated a substantial number of photographs and maps to the American Alpine Club and to the Swiss National Museum, which are setting up the Lt. Nawang Kapadia Collection. This is in addition to the Lt. Nawang Kapadia Library already in existence at the Himalayan Club. His book, "Meeting The Mountains" is also seen while standing in line at Disney's Animal Kingdom for Expedition Everest. While passing through the line you pass through many glass cases displaying the history of mountains and at one point, you come across something that is supposed to look like an office and his book can be seen on the top bookshelf of this section.

Mohan Singh Kohli

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Captain Manmohan Singh Kohli (b. December 11, 1931 at Haripur) is an internationally renowned Indian mountaineer. An officer in the Indian Navy who joined the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, he led the 1965 Indian expedition which put nine men on the summit of Everest, a world record which lasted for 17 years. He may be most famous though for revealing 1960s' Himalayan expeditions for the CIA that placed equipment to monitor nuclear sites in China. Mohan Kohli was President of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation from 1989 to 1993. In 1989, he co-founded the Himalayan Environment Trust. He has been honoured with the Padma Bhushan and Arjuna Award.

Bachendri Pal
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Bachendri Pal is an Indian mountaineer, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest.

Conten ts Early life

Bachendri Pal belonged to a family of very moderate means. She was born on 24 May 1954 in a village named Nakuri in Uttarakashi District of Garhwal. In 1982, Hari.K.Govind hill at NIM, she climbed Gangotri(21,900 ft) and Rudugaria (19,091 ft). In that time, she got employment as an instructor at the National Adventure Foundation(NAF), which had set up an adventure school for training women to learn mountaineering.

Ascent
In 1984, India had scheduled its fourth expedition, christened Everest 84, to the Mount Everest. Bachendri was selected as one of the members of the elite group of six Indian women and eleven men who were privileged to attempt an ascent to the Mount Everest, Sagarmatha in the Nepali language[Nepalese] The news filled them with a sense of ecstasy and excitement. The team was flown to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal in March 1984; and from there the team moved onwards. Recalling her first glimpse of the Mount Everest, Bachendri once reminisced: We the hill people have always worshipped the mountains my overpowering emotion at this awe-inspiring spectacle was, therefore, devotional. The team commenced its ascent in May, 1984. On the night of 1516 May 1984, Bachendri and her tent mate were sleeping in one of the tents at Camp III at an altitude of about 24,000 feet. At around 00:30 hours (IST), at around 24,000 feet, she was jolted awake; something had hit her hard and she also heard a deafening sound; and at the same time she found herself being enveloped within a very cold mass of material. On 22 May 1984, some other climbers joined the team to ascent the summit of the Mount Everest. Bachendri was the only woman in this group. They continued the ascent climbing vertical sheets of frozen ice, cold winds sometimes blowing at the speed of about 100 km per hour, temperatures touching minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. On 23 May 1984, Bachendri reached the summit of Mount Everest, and at 1:07 PM IST.

Later life
She continued to be active after ascending the highest peak in the world. In 1985, she led an Indo-Nepalese Everest Expedition team comprising only women. The expedition created seven world records and set benchmarks for Indian mountaineering. Nine years later, in 1994, she led an all women team of rafters. She is also a good singer.

Arunima Sinha
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Arunima Sinha
Born Nationality 1988 Indian First Female ampute e to climb Mount Everest . First Indian ampute e to climb Mount Known f Everest .

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Arunima "Sonu" Sinha (born 1988) is the first female amputee to climb Mount Everest.[1] She is also the first Indian amputee to climb Mount Everest.[2] She was a national level volleyball player who was pushed out of a running train by thieves in 2011 while resisting them. One of her legs had to be amputated below the knee as a result.

Conten ts Early life and career

Sinha is from Ambedkar Nagar in Uttar Pradesh, India. She had qualified as a Head Constable in the CISF in 2012.[3]

Train accident
Sinha, a former national volleyball and football player,[4] boarded the Padmavati Express train at Lucknow for Delhi on 11 April 2011, to take an examination to join the CISF. She was pushed out of a general coach of the train by thieves wanting to snatch her bag and gold chain. Recounting the incident, she said

I resisted and they pushed me out of the train. I could not move. I remember seeing a train coming towards me. I tried getting up. By then, the train had run over my leg. I don't remember anything after that

Immediately, as she fell on the railway track, another train on a parallel track crushed her leg below the knee. She was rushed to the hospital[4] with serious leg and pelvic injuries, and lost her leg after doctors amputated it to save her life.[5] She was offered compensation of 25,000 (US$430) by the Indian Sports Ministry. Following national outrage, the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Ajay Maken announced an additional Rs. 200,000 (US$3,400) compensation as medical relief, together with a recommendation for a job in the CISF. Indian Railways also offered her a job.[6] On 18 April 2011, she was brought to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences[7] for further treatment, spending four months at the Institute.[8] She was provided a prosthetic leg free of cost by a private Delhi-based Indian company.[9] An inquiry by the police into the incident threw her version of the accident into doubt. According to the police, she was either attempting suicide or met with an accident while crossing the railway tracks. Sinha claimed that the police were lying.[10][11][12]

Mount Everest ascent

Planning and training

While still being treated in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, she resolved to climb Mount Everest,[13] She was inspired by cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who had successfully battled cancer, "to do something" with her life.[14] She excelled in the basic mountaineering course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, and was encouraged by her elder brother Omprakash to climb Everest with a prosthetic leg.[15] She contacted Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, in 2011[13] by telephone[15] and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012.[16] Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 metres) in 2012 as preparation for her ascent of Everest[17]

The climb

On 1 April 2013, Sinha and Susen Mahto, a TSAF instructor,[18] who had together climbed Mount Chhamser Kangri (6622 metres) in 2012 under the guidance of Bachendri Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest.[13] After a hard toil of 17 hours,[19] Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored Eco Everest Expedition,[20] becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest.[19] She took 52 days to reach the summit.[21][22]
Aftermath

She was congratulated by the Indian Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on her achievement.[23] Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday honoured Arunima Sinha, the first amputee to climb Mount Everest. Chief minister handed over two cheques for an amount of Rs. 25 lakh to Sinha at a function organised at her 5-Kalidas Marg residence in Lucknow. These included a cheque of Rs. 20 lakh from the state government and a cheque of Rs. 5 lakh on behalf of the Samajwadi Party. Chief minister said Sinha by her hard work and determination had climbed the Mount Everest and created a history.[2

Arjun Vajpai

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Arjun Vajpai was the second youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest. He achieved this feat at an age of 16 years, 11 months and 18 days.[1] He broke the record set by the Krishna Patil of Maharashtra who climbed the summit at the age of 19. On 20 May 2011, he became the youngest climber ever to summit Lhotse, aged 17 years, 11 months and 16 days. Arjun also became the youngest to summit Mt.Manaslu on October 4, 2011 at 10 am. Arjun Vajpai, Tshering Phinjo Sherpa and Nima Tshering Sherpa started from South Col (Camp IV 7950m) at 10:24 pm on 21 May and they reached the Top of Mt. Everest at 06:33 am (Kathmandu Time)on 22 May. He did the wonder at 06.18 hrs on Saturday, outpacing Maharashtras Krishnaa Patil, who climbed the mountain in 2010 at the age of 19. Arjun is the Son of Capt. Sanjeev Vajpai and Priya Bajpai of Noida.Arjun, a Class-XII student at Ryan International School, Noida, had fascination for trekking and mountaineering from childhood. He has undergone two years of training from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.[2]

Santosh Yadav
Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice in less than a year"Santosh Yadav feels motivated to climb Everest again". News.webindia123.com. 2007-05-11. Retrieved 2010-06-20.and the first woman to successfully climb Mt Everest from Kangshung Face."Thrice on top, Pune woman mountaineer eyes Everest again". Indianexpress.com. 2000-06-19. Retrieved 2010-06-20. She first climbed the peak in May 1992 and then did it again in May 1993.

Early life and education

She was born in 10 October, 1967 in Joniyawas Village Rewari District of Haryana state in India, as the sixth child in a family with five sons. She is an alumna of Maharani College, Jaipur. Living in Kasturba Hostel she joined Uttarkashi's Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. While studying she prepared herself to climb two great peaks namely, mountaineering and Indian Civil Services and was successful in both. She prepared for her IAS exams in a hostel provided by Indian Mountaineering Federation at Connought Place, New Delhi. At barely twenty years of age, Santosh Yadav scaled Mt. Everest, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat (In the 1992 Everest Mission). Within twelve months, she became a member of an IndoNepalese Women's expedition, and scaled the Everest the second time, thus setting the record as the only woman to have scaled the Everest Twice. Currently she is an officer in Indo-Tibetan Border Police. She was conferred the Padma Shri award in 2000. She was part of the nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to Nun Kun in 1989.