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| India's youngest girl Poorna on top of Mt. Everest. indiatimes.com |
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| India's Malavath Purna, youngest to climb Mt Everest .britishsouthindians.co.uk |
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If
there is will and firm determination, regardless of age any
body
can take on
risky challenges and come out victorious. Our driving forces ought to be
confidence and firm belief in our ability to accomplish whatever
challenge is thrown at us. Two young teenagers from the states of
Telengana and Andhra, by sheer handwork and will-power, achieved success -
scaling Mt. Everest, which no teenagers would ever dream of. At that
age, they would rather spend their time on the Cricket or Football
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| Young girl mountaineer Poona, India. thehansindia.com |
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| Mt. Everest route taken by Poorna. dailymail.co |
Poorna, born at
Pakala village, Nizamabad district of Telangana state of India on 10
June 2000, is from a tribal family of farm laborers. Her parents Devidas
and Lakshmi made their livelihood by working on the nearby farms as
farm hands. On 25 May 2014 (Sunday about 6 am), Poorna, aged 13 years and 11 months
scaled the highest peak of Mount Everest and became the youngest person/ girl
in the world to have reached the summit of Everest. She was accompanied
by Sandhana Palli Anand Kumar from Khammam. The trekking on the
treacherous mountain was a 52 day ordeal for the youngsters.
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| Narendra Modi congratulates two youngsters for climbing Mt Everest - YouTube |
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| Young girl Poorna.alchetron.com |
As part of the initiative to encourage excellence in the students
of the
society, the two were finally selected. Earlier, twenty students were
sent to the world famous mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, West
Bengal for training. Here, she climbed 17000 ft tall Mount Renock. Finally, nine among them were sent on expedition to
Indo-China border where she got accustomed to sub-zero temperatures of — 35 degrees Celsius The training period lasted over eight months. Seeing her high endurance level, she was sent on the Everest expedition. Since Poorna and Anand Kumar had all the physical
fitness requirements such as tough body, endurance, mental prowess to
face stressful situations, etc., they were finally shortlisted for the Mt.
Everest expedition. Further, being in their teens, they had developed a
passion to undertake the dangerous trekking nobody had tried before.
During their expedition an unexpected and discouraging incident had happened in April 2014 prior to their assault on the tallest peak. For unknown reasons, a horrible, menacing snow avalanche had swept down and engulfed 16 lives, forcing many climbers to abandon their plans to ascend Everest, as the slopes along some routes were loose and unstable. In the face of this worst mishap and unpalatable incidence, the two youngsters from South India never showed any sign of needlessness or desperation. On the higher levels the winds were pretty harsh and biting cold. Further Poorna was not happy with packaged food and had to rely on soup. Amidst various difficulties they kept going up hill. These challenges made them become more resolute and determined to summit Mt. Everest and be on the roof of the world.
They were well trained by one Shekar Babu, a good mountaineer who himself scaled Mt. Everest in 2007 without any help. It was indeed a great feat on the part of the school students, considering their age and mental maturity. These high school students' remarkable feat will go down in the history of mountaineering and their ascent on the most dangerous summit is an inspiration to all other youngsters not only in India, but also in other parts of the world.
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