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Malavath Poorna [a] (born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer. On 25 May 2014, Poorna climbed Mount Everest , aged 13 years and 11 months, the youngest female to have reached the summit. [ 1 ] Purna climbed Mount Elbrus , the highest peak in Europe on 27 July 2017.
For the last decade of his life, Shipton continued to travel, supporting himself by lecturing and acting as a celebrity guide. He completed the second volume of his autobiography, That Untravelled World, in 1969. He visited the Galapagos Islands, Alaska, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia, Kenya, Chile, Bhutan and Nepal.
Jordan Romero (born 1996) US, became the youngest person to climb Everest on May 22, 2010, aged 13 years, 10 months, 10 days [4] Steve Roper guidebook writer, editor of Ascent, first ascent of West Buttress of El Capitan. John Roskelley (born 1948) US, author, alpinist, Himalayan climber notable for technical first ascents of 7000 and 8000 m peaks
Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber.She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by any woman in the world. [2] [3] Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. [4]
Himalaya: Mountains of Life is a coffee table book [3] authored by Sandesh Kadur and Kamaljit S. Bawa. The book contains information about the biodiversity of the Eastern Himalayas [ 4 ] and is divided into four main chapters, The Land, The People, The Animals, The Plants.
Mumtaz Ali Khan was born on 6 November 1949 to an affluent Muslim family in Trivandrum, Travancore–Cochin (now in Kerala). [4] [5] In his autobiography, Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master, Sri M describes meeting his guru Sri Maheshwarnath Babaji in the backyard of his home in Trivandrum: a distinguished, youthful-looking stranger with matted hair, standing near a jackfruit tree.
Location of all the 14 eight-thousanders. Alan Hinkes OBE (born 26 April 1954) is an English Himalayan high-altitude mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire.He is the first British mountaineer to claim all 14 Himalayan eight-thousanders (mountains above 8,000 m (26,247 ft) in height), a feat he completed on 30 May 2005.
Kedarnath Wild Life Sanctuary, also called the Kedarnath Musk Deer Sanctuary, is a wildlife sanctuary declared under Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 and located in Uttarakhand, India. Its alternate name comes from its primary purpose of protecting the endangered Himalayan musk deer . [ 1 ]