Baljeet Kaur from Himachal Pradesh is the primary Indian girl to climb Mount Annapoorna, Kanchenjunga, Everest and Lhotse in lower than 30 days.
Baljeet Kaur has many firsts to her title. The 27-year-old is the primary Indian girl to scale 5 8,000m peaks in lower than 30 days. She has additionally climbed two 8,000m peaks with no supplemental oxygen, together with Mount Annapurna.
Baljeet has had an unimaginable drive since she was a toddler. She began by climbing small hills close to her village. However her love for mountaineering began throughout an NCC camp when she was 20. Since then, there is no such thing as a mountain excessive sufficient for this go-getter.
“After faculty hours, I used to work in folks’s homes, cleansing and cooking. I knew learn how to prepare dinner a full meal since I turned eight,” says Kaur, who additionally took health courses on-line in the course of the COVID-19 lockdown to chase her mountaineering dream.
She even ran a crowdfunding marketing campaign together with her mom promoting her jewelry to help her expeditions.
She submitted Mount Annapurna, Kanchenjunga, Everest and Lhotse in lower than a month.
Edited by Padmashree Pande
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