Mumbai girl Kaamya Karthikeyan becomes youngest Indian to summit Mt Everest

Kaamya, a class 12 student at Navy Children School, Mumbai, and her father Cdr S Karthikeyan successfully summited Mt. Everest (8,849 m) on May 20

Kaamya Karthikeyan becomes the youngest Indian girl to summit Mt Everest

Ms Kaamya Karthikeyan and her father Cdr S Karthikeyan after climbing atop Mt Everest. (@indiannavy/X)

Sixteen-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan has become the youngest Indian mountaineer to scale the Mt Everest from the Nepal side. She also becomes the second youngest girl in the world to achieve this feat.

Lauding the achievement, the Indian Navy, via a statement, said: “After this feat, she has become the second youngest girl in the world, and the youngest Indian mountaineer to summit the world’s highest peak from the Nepal side.”

Kaamya, a class 12 student at Navy Children School, Mumbai, and her father Cdr S Karthikeyan successfully summited Mt. Everest (8,849 m) on May 20, according to a statement issued by the Navy.

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Kaamya has completed six milestones in her mission to summit the highest peak of all seven continents and aims to climb Mt. Vinson Massif in Antarctica this December to become the youngest girl to accomplish the ‘7summits challenge’, the Navy said.

Sharing pictures on social media platform X, the Navy wrote: “#IndianNavy congratulates Ms Kaamya Karthikeyan d/o Cdr S Karthikeyan on becoming the youngest #Indian & the second youngest girl in the world to summit Mt Everest from the Nepal side. Kaamya has exhibited immense courage & fortitude in summiting the highest peaks in six of the seven continents.”

“#IndianNavy wishes young Kaamya the very best in her aspiration to summit the highest peaks of all seven continents, becoming the youngest girl to do so. #7SummitsChallenge,” it added.

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