Sixteen-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan has become the youngest Indian mountaineer to scale Mt. Everest from the Nepal side. She also became the second youngest girl in the world to achieve this great feat.
Kaamya Karthikeyan is a class 12 student at Navy Children School, Mumbai. On May 20, she successfully summited Mt. Everest, along with her father S. Karthikeyan who is in the Indian Navy. She has completed six milestones in her mission to summit the highest peak of all seven continents. Kaamya Karthikeyan is now aiming to climb Mt. Vinson Massif in Antarctica this December to become the youngest girl to accomplish the ‘7 summits challenge’.
Did You Know?
In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest.