Priyanka Mohite climbed the world’s highest peak Mount Everest in 2013.
Mumbai:
Priyanka Mohite from Satara in western Maharashtra has turn into the primary Indian girl to scale 5 peaks above 8,000 metres after she climbed Mount Kanchenjunga on Thursday.
Priyanka Mohite (30), the recipient of Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2020, efficiently accomplished her expedition to Mount Kanchenjunga (8,586 m), the third highest mountain on the planet, at 4.52 pm,” her brother Akash Mohite informed PTI.
In April 2021, she had scaled Mt Annapurna (8,091 m), the 10th highest mountain peak on this planet and had turn into the primary Indian girl climber to realize the feat.
Priyanka Mohite has additionally climbed the world’s highest peak Mount Everest (8,849 m) in 2013, Mount Lhotse (8,516 m) in 2018, Mount Makalu (8,485 m) and Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 m) in 2016.
Passionate about mountaineering since childhood, Ms Mohite began to scale mountains within the Sahyadri vary of Maharashtra as a teen and in 2012 scaled Bandarpunch, a mountain massif of the Garhwal division of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand.
In 2015 Priyanka Mohite scaled Mt. Menthosa which at 6,443 metres is the second-highest peak within the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.
The Bengaluru-based climber can also be the recipient of the Maharashtra Government’s Shiv Chhatrapati State award for journey sports activities for 2017-2018.
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