Krushnaa Patil

Krushnaa Patil is an Indian mountaineer. In 2009, at the age of 19, she became the youngest Indian woman to successfully ascent Mount Everest, earth's highest mountain.[1] She is also the first civilian woman from Maharashtra to scale the peak.

Krushnaa Patil
Born (1989-10-30) 30 October 1989
Pune, Maharashtra
NationalityIndian
Other namesAshwini
Occupationmountaineer, motivational speaker
Known forSecond youngest Indian to summit Mt. Everest in 2009
AwardsRajiv Gandhi Puraskar, 2009

Kesari Lokmanya Tilak Felicitation, 2009 Hirkani Puraskar, 2009 Young Achiever, Citadel Award 2009 Young Achiever, Mitcom Award 2009 Zhansi Ki Rani Award 2009 Indira Gandhi Puraskar, 2009 Maharashtra Ratna – 2010 Rotary International Award, 2010 Gr8 Women’s Awards, 2010 Young Indian Leaders, CNN-IBN, 2010

Today’s Youth Asia Award (Nepal), 2010
Websitewww.krushnaapatil.com

Her record of the youngest Indian to climb Everest has subsequently been surpassed by younger mountaineers.[2] In 2010, Krushnaa attempted to ascent the Seven Summits. Her last summit on Mount McKinley had to be abandoned due to technical reasons, leaving her one short of completing the feat.[3]

Background

For Krushnaa Patil's family, vacations were always in the Himalayas. She enrolled in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) at Uttarkashi for a Basic Mountaineering Course in 2007 followed by an Advance Mountaineering Course in 2008.

Soon after, Patil got the chance to be a part of the pre-Everest expedition, and at 18, became the youngest person to scale the Mount Satopanth (Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand). Everest followed in May 2009, when she became the second youngest Indian (after Dicky Dolma) to summit the peak.

Mountaineering

Access water

Krushnaa is a part of an international expedition on clean water access and conservation program,[4] which, through 2014 - 2020, will promote access to fresh water around the world with a team of eight women, from six continents.[5]

See also

References
  1. "Krushnaa Patil is the youngest woman in India to climb Mount Everest". dna news. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  2. Billups, Andrea (7 June 2014). "Indian Girl, 13, Becomes the Youngest Person to Climb Mount Everest". People. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  3. "After Everest, Krushnaa Patil sets sight on new peaks". DNA. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  4. "From Ganga to Antarctica: Seven women gear up for expedition to highlight clean water shortage". Retrieved 29 January 2015.
  5. "All women international team on an expedition to Mississippi for 'Access Water'". dreamwanderlust.com. 21 September 2017.
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