CHANDIGARH: Baljeet Kaur on Sunday turned the primary Indian mountaineer to scale 4 8,000-meter peaks back-to-back in lower than a month when she summitted Mount Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain on the earth at 8,516 meters.
Finishing the Everest-Lhotse traverse, Kaur reached the highest of Lhotse on Sunday morning at 05.50 native time. A day earlier, she had scaled Mount Everest on Saturday at 4.30am native time.
"Kaur scaled Lhotse along with her information Mingma Sherpa and is anticipated to be again on the base camp by Monday morning," stated Pasang Sherpa, the director of Peak Promotion, a Kathmandu-based mountaineering company.
Mount Lhotse is the fourth 8,000-meter peak Kaur, 27, has scaled inside 25 days through the ongoing climbing season in Nepal.
Final month on April 28, Kaur, had scaled Mount Annapurna, the tenth highest mountain on the earth at 8,091 meters and on Might 12 she summitted Mount Kanchenjunga, the third highest mountain at 8,586 meters.
Hailing from Solan in Himachal Pradesh, Kaur had additionally climbed Mount Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters), the seventh highest mountain on the earth, final yr, and is the primary Indian lady together with Gunbala Sharma from Rajasthan to scale Mount Pumori (7,161 meters) in 2021. By scaling Lhotse, Kaur has additionally equalled the document of scaling 5 eight-thousanders set by Priyanka Mohite, a mountaineer from Maharashtra. Mohite, 30, had change into the primary Indian lady this yr on Might 2, when she had summited Mount Kanchenjunga, her fifth 8,000-meter peak.
Congratulating Kaur, Indian Mountaineering Basis (IMF) president Harshwanti Bisht stated her achievement would increase ladies mountaineering in India.
"Such a feat is extremely optimistic for the ladies mountaineering in India. An increasing number of Indian ladies climbers are breaking and setting new information, which in flip are encouraging extra expertise to come back ahead," stated Bisht.