Kamya Karthikeyan (17) of Mumbai has become the youngest mountaineer (female category) in the world to conquer the highest peaks of all seven continents. She achieved this feat on 24 December by conquering Mount Vincent in Chile, Antarctica, along with her father, Army Commander S Karthikeyan. The height of Mount Vincent is 4 thousand 892 meters i.e. 16 thousand 50 feet. It is located in the southern part of the main ridge of the Sentinel Range. Kamya is a 12th class student at Navy Children School in Mumbai. She has conquered the highest peaks of other 6 continents before Mount Vincent. Pictures of Kamya conquering Mount Vincent… Kamya is the youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest
Kamya created a new record by climbing Mount Everest on 23 May this year. She became the youngest Indian mountaineer to conquer the world’s highest peak from Nepal. Kamya is also the second youngest female mountaineer in the world to climb Mount Everest. She climbed Mount Aconcagua at the age of 12. Kamya climbed Mount Aconcagua at the age of 12. She was the youngest mountaineer in the world to conquer it. Mount Aconcagua, located in the Andes mountain range of Argentina, is the highest mountain in the South American continent. Its height is 6962 meters. Kamya completed the climb of 6260 meter high Mount Mentok Kangri II in Ladakh on 24 August 2019. Even then she was the youngest mountaineer to do so. Started trekking at the age of three When Kamya was 3 years old, she started climbing the basic track in Lonavala (Pune). When she turned 9, she conquered many high peaks of the Himalayas with her parents. These include Roopkund of Uttarakhand. A year later, she reached Everest Base Camp (5346 meters) in Nepal. In 2019, she completed the climb to Mount Stok Kangri (6153 meters) in Ladakh. …………………………………. Also read this news related to climbing the peaks… Jyoti Ratre was stuck in the death zone of Everest: said – slept in a wet sleeping bag in -20 degrees for 3 days, had to clean the tent every 3 hours. We were near Camp 4, only then did we come to know that the weather was going to be very bad for the next 3 days. We had to stay at 7,800 meters. This area is called the death tent zone. The conditions here were very bad. We could not go out. Due to the storm, snow was coming inside the tent. It used to cover us. In such a situation, we had to clean it every 3 hours. The temperature here was around -20 degrees. In this way, we spent 3 days and 4 nights. Read the full news…
