List of Mount Everest records of India

This is list of Mount Everest records of Indian nationals have achieved.[1][2][3][4]

Indian Navy expedition on the Everest summit, 2017

Records
  • The first Kashmiri woman to Climb Mount Everest is Nahida Manzoor, at the age of 23. She hails from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.[5]
  • First Gujarati sisters to climb Mount Everest, Aditi Vaidya (25 yrs.) and Anuja Vaidya (21 yrs.) Reached the top on 22 May 2019. They are from Surat.[6]
  • Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu - climbed Mount Everest seven times.
  • In 1984, Bachendri Pal (Hindi: बछेंद्री पाल) became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest[7][8]
  • Premlata Agarwal (Hindi: प्रेमलता अग्रवाल) - the first Indian woman mountaineer to complete the Seven Summits and one of the oldest Indian women mountaineers to summit Mount Everest, at age 48, in 2011
  • Ajeet Bajaj and Deeya Bajaj became the first father-daughter team to climb Mount Everest from India, on May 16th, 2018.[9] They are the first father-daughter team in the world to climb the North Side of Mount Everest.[10]
  • Keval Kakka becomes the fastest Indian to summit Mount Everest (16 May 2019) and Mount Lhotse (21 May 2019) both in 6 days in a single season. He was awarded Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award - Land by President of India in 2020 for climbing 2x8000m in a single expedition[11]
  • Dr Surgeon Lieutenant Viking Bhanoo, summited Mt Everest on 18 May 2004 and became the first Medical Doctor in the world and first Indian Naval Personnel to achieve this feat.
  • Gurgaon's 53-year-old Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl, a Miss India finalist in 1985, became the oldest Indian woman to scale the world's highest peak on May 19, 2018.[12]
  • Ravindra Kumar, the only IAS officer to have climbed the Mt. Everest twice, is a native of Begusarai[13]

World records
Tashi and Nungshi were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together.
  • Santosh Yadav was the first woman to summit twice in 1992 and 1993
  • Tashi and Nungshi Malik:
    • They became the first female twins to scale Moung Everest on 19 May 2013 (entered in Guinness World Records)
    • On 16 December 2014, they became the first siblings and twins to scale the Seven Summits, the highest peaks in all 7 continents (entered in Guinness World Records)
    • On 21 April 2015, they were the first siblings and twins to complete Adventurers Grand Slam and Three Poles Challenge (entered in Guinness World Records)
    • Also on 21 April 2015, they became the Youngest persons ever to complete the Adventurers Grand Slam and Three Poles Challenge (entered in Guinness World Records)
    • On 16 May 2018, they became the Youngest Women to climb Mount Everest (Entered in Limca book of Records)

National/regional records
  • First South Asians to complete Adventurers Grand Slam and the Three Pole Challenge
  • Youngest South Asians and fastest Indian women to scale the Seven Summits
  • First Indian women to climb all Seven Summits in first attempt (overall 2nd Indian women)
  • Youngest and fastest South Asians to reach North and South Pole on skis (completed in less than 4 months)
  • First Indian and South Asian women to reach North and South Pole on skis.

Year wise records

2019
  • Keval Kakka becomes the first Indian to climb two 8000m peaks of Mount Everest (16 May 2019) and Mount Lhotse ( 7 May 2019) in 6 days.[14]
  • Aditi Vaidya (25 yrs.) and Anuja Vaidya [21 yrs.] become the first Gujarati sisters [women] from Gujarat state to summit Mount Everest on 22 May 2019 in first attempt.[15]
  • Amgoth Tukaram [20 years] from Thakkellapally Tanda, Rangareddy District, Telangana. Summit date May 22, 2019 [16]

2018
  • Ajeet Bajaj and Deeya Bajaj became the first father-daughter team to climb Mount Everest from India.[9] They are the first father-daughter team in the world to climb the North Side of Mt. Everest.[10]
  • Mehul Joshi became first Gujarati from Gujarat to climb Mount Everest from China. He is also the first member of All India Chemist and Drugist Association to reach on the top of Mount Everest.[17]
  • Shivangi Pathak born and currently living in Hisar District in Haryana, also summited on 16 May 2018. She is the youngest Indian Women to Climb from the South Side.[18][19]

2017
  • Anshu Jamsenpa, from Bomdilla in Arunachal Pradesh, became the first woman to make a dual ascent of Mount Everest within a span of five days, setting the record for fastest double ascent in a single climbing season by a woman. This is a new world record set by the woman who broke the previous record of Nepal's Chhurim Sherpa, who had ascended Mount Everest twice in a week in 2012. Jamsenpa reached the summit of the world's highest mountain for the second time on 21 May 2017.[20]
  • Indian Navy undertook a momentary expedition to Mount Everest in 2017 specially termed "Sagartal se Sagarmatha" meaning "Seabed to Summit" where in the ceremonial ice-axe was taken underwater to the lowest sea-bed in Karwar and was successfully taken atop the World's Highest Point. The Expedition was also inline with honouring the India's first successful expedition to Mount Everest led by legend of Indian Mountaineering Capt MS Kohli (IN)in May 1965. the expedition team consisted of 18 climbers and 06 support team. 04 climbers from Team A which includes Lt Anant Kukreti, Lt Cdr C S Yadav, Lt Shashank Tewari and Bikas Maharana (COM I) had successfully summited the peak at 0630hrs on 21 May 2017. Members of team B stood test of time and sustained prolonged stay at 6400m high camp II. They displayed true grit and determination by not giving up in adverse weather conditions but awaited patiently to scale the highest peak in the world on the first available opportunity and had successfully summited Mount Everest, 8848 m at 0730 hrs on 27 May 17. The team consisted of Lt Cdr Hari Prasath, Hariom (PO), Sandeep Singh (LPT), Ashish Gupta (LA AH) and Avinash Bhawane (MA I). Apart from the main expedition team, 02 members of the support team Sachin Kanjalkar (LMA) and Manoj Adari (LMA) successfully summited Mount Lhotse at 1000 hrs on 25 May 2017. Mount Lhotse is the sister peak of Mount Everest. Standing at 8516M, it is the fourth highest peak in the world after Everest, K2 and Kanchenjunga.
  • Yogendar Garbiyal, from Garbyang Village in Pithoragarh District of Uttarakhand, scaled Mount Everest on 27 May 2017 as a part of ONGC Mission Everest 2017. He and Shri Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu reached the summit at 06:10 am from the South Side (Nepal).[21]

2016
  • Deepika Rathore achieved her second Mount Everest summiting (her first was in 2012).[22]
  • Suhail Sharma, an IPS officer, summited.[23]
  • An Indian team from Bengal suffered three fatalities.[24]
  • An all-girls 10-member expedition put some people on the summit.[25] This team came across the stricken Bengal climbers and tried to help them.[25]
  • Tashi and Nungshi Malik were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together.

International records by Indians
Record name Age Person Date Ref.
First IAS to summit twice Ravindra Kumar 2013, 2015 [26]
First woman to summit twice Santosh Yadav 1992, 1993 [27]
Youngest female to climb Mount Everest 13 years and 11 months Malavath Purna 25 May 2014 [28][29]
Youngest woman up to Summit Everest up to that time 19 years 35 days Dicky Dolma 10 May 1993 [30]
Youngest woman to summit up to that time 24 years, 215 days Santosh Yadav 12 May 1992
Youngest woman to summit up to that time 30 years 28 days Bachendri Pal 23 May 1984 [31]
Oldest person to climb Mount Everest from North side and oldest civilian to climb Mount Everest up to that time 52 years Debabrata Mukherjee (b 1962) 25 May 2014 [32]
Oldest person to climb Mount Everest from South up to that time 56 years S C Negi Additional DIG BSF (b 8 March 1950)[33] 24 May 2006 [34]
Oldest person to climb Mount Everest up to that time 42 years, 6 months Sonam Gyatso (b 1922) 22 May 1965 [31]
First person to reach the summit from three different routes (South Col, North Col and Kangshung Face) Kushang Sherpa 1993- 2003 [35]

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First twins to climb Mount Everest together; summitted Tashi and Nungshi Malik May 19, 2013 [37]
Female amputee (one leg), summitted Arunima Sinha May 21, 2013 [38]
Youngest person to trek to Everest Base Camp (Nepal) 5 Harshit Saumitra October 2014 [39]
First dual ascent made by a woman on Mount Everest's summit within five days Anshu Jamsenpa 21 May 2017 [40]

See also

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