Baljeet Kaur is a 27-year-old woman from Himachal Pradesh’s Solan, who became the first Indian mountaineer to scale four 8,000-meter peaks back-to-back in less than a month when she summitted Mount Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world at 8,516 meters.
“Kaur scaled Lhotse with her guide Mingma Sherpa and is expected to be back at the base camp by Monday morning,” said Pasang Sherpa, the director of Peak Promotion, a Kathmandu-based mountaineering agency.
Mountaineering career- Last month on April 28, Kaur, had scaled Mount Annapurna, the 10th highest mountain in the world at 8,091 meters. On May 12 she summitted Mount Kanchenjunga, the third-highest mountain at 8,586 meters. Kaur had also climbed Mount Dhaulagiri (8,167 meters), the seventh highest mountain in the world, last year, and is the first Indian woman along with Gunbala Sharma from Rajasthan to scale Mount Pumori(7,161meters) in 2021. Kaur has climbed 11 peaks and counting.
Such a feat is highly positive for the women mountaineering in India. More and more Indian women climbers are breaking and setting new records, which is encouraging more talent to come forward-said Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF) president Harshwanti Bisht.
