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Youngest and Oldest Indian Women to Scale Mount Everest

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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.

The First Indian Space Tourist: Gopi Thotakura

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US based Gopi Thotakura made history as he became the first Indian space tourist! Indian born and commercial pilot Gopichand Thotakura took off on May 19 and reached the edge of space on a Blue Origin spacecraft, along with five other crew members. The whole journey, from take off to landing lasted only about ten minutes, during which the spacecraft attained a maximum height of about 105km from the Earth. 

The passengers got to experience weightlessness for a few minutes and observe the Earth from a height. One of the passengers on this Blue Origin spacecraft made history by becoming the oldest person to travel to space. American citizen, Ed Dwight, who is 90, described the experience as “life changing”.

What is Blue Origin?

Blue Origin is the space tourism project by Amazon owner Jeff Bezos.

Word Check

Space tourism is the term for people paying to go for a trip to space.

Record-Breaking Ocean Temperatures: What’s Behind the Rising Heat?

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On analysing the data published by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, the BBC has said that the world’s oceans have suffered a year of record-breaking heat due to climate change. The seas have broken temperature records every single day for the past year. 

 

This has not only caused widespread coral bleaching, but has threatened the habitat for many marine species. For 13 months in a row, the sea surface temperature has been the warmest on record. According to experts, warmer sea temperatures may result in severe hurricanes and these changes could have long term effects on the Earth like rising sea levels. Greenhouse gases and El Niño have warmed the seas. 

World’s Oldest Orangutan Turns 63

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Bella is the world’s oldest living orangutan in captivity. On April 16, Bella celebrated her 63rd birthday. Bella is a Sumatran orangutan and is estimated to be born in 1961. Ever since she was collected from the wild in 1964, she has lived at Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg, Germany. She was given a birthday cake made of soft-boiled rice and various fruits, which she shared with Berani, one of her adopted children.

Did You Know?

Orangutans typically live in the wild up to 35-40 years and normally up to 50 years in captivity.

World’s Oldest Gorilla Turns 67

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According to the Berlin Zoo, Fatou is the world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity and she recently celebrated her 67th birthday on April 13. Her precise age and birthday are not known. 

Fatou, who was born in the wild and has lived in human captivity at the Berlin Zoo since 1959, was given a special early birthday treat of twigs, lettuce, grapes, bananas, and some melon in a basket by zookeepers.

Did You Know?

Gorillas typically live up to 35 years in the wild and normally up to 50 years in human care.

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