Himachal’s Baljeet Kaur has become the first Indian climber to scale four 8,000-metre peaks in less than one month.
Baljeet Kaur has become the first Indian mountaineer to scale four 8,000-metre peaks in less than a month after she successfully climbed Mount Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world.
Kaur, the 27-year-old climber from Himachal Pradesh, scaled Mt Lhotse on Sunday and became the first Indian climber to have climbed four 8000-meter peaks in a single season, said Pasang Sherpa, Director at Peak Promotion Pvt Ltd
She successfully scaled the world’s fourth-highest peak with her guide Mingma Sherpa, he said, adding that it was Kaur’s fourth successful climb this spring season.
Baljeet and Mingma submitted Mt Annapurna I (8,091-metre) on April 28, Mt Kanchenjunga (8,586-metre) on May 12. On May 21, they scaled Mt Everest (8,849 metre), Pasang said.
