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Tuesday 3 July 2018

Youngest Girls to ever climb mount Everest

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Junko Tabei



Junko Tabei ( 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer. She was the first  woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, at the age of 35 years in May 16 1975 and the first woman to ascend all Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent.



1.Malavath Purna

Malavath Purna ( born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer from Nizamabad districtTelangana. On 25 May 2014, Poorna scaled the highest peak of Mount Everest and, aged 13 years and 11 months, became the youngest girl in the world to have reached the summit of Everest. The youngest boy to summit Mt. Everest is Jordan Romero, who reached the summit at age 13 years and 10 months. She was accompanied by Sandhanapalli Anand Kumar from Khammam. She scaled Mt. Elbrus, the highest peak in Russia and in Europe on 27th July, 2017 at around 10:00 hrs.(IST) . After reaching the summit of Elbrus, she unfurled a 50ft long Indian Tricolor singing the Indian National Anthem. She is the youngest girl to ever climb Mount Everest.

2.Ming Kipa


Ming Kipa (born 1988) is a NepaleseSherpa girl who held the record as the youngest person to climb Mount Everest from 2003 to 2010. She reached the summit on May 22, 2003 when she was 15 years old,with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister Laphka. Nepalese law does not allow climbers under 16 to climb Everest, so Ming Kipa Sherpa summitted Everest from the Chinese side.

3.Dicky Dolma

Dicky Dolma (born 5 April 1974) is an Indian woman who is known for being the youngest woman to summit Mount Everest up to that time at the age of 19 on May 10, 1993.This occurred on the Indo-Nepal Women's Everest Expedition.This Indo-Nepal Women's Everest Expedition was led by Bachendri Pal who was the first Indian woman to summit Mount Everest in 1984. Dicky was also a skier and attended numerous sporting competitions including the 1989 All-India Open Auli Ski Festival and the Asian Winter Games in 1999. She took ski training courses and basic mountaineering courses by the Manali Institute.[3] In the same expedition as Dicky Dolma, Santosh Yadav summited Mount Everest for the second time, the first woman to summit twice. Dolma came from Palchan Village near Manali (in India).

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