Mountaineer Shipra Batra was raised in an environment where she was made to believe that engineering and MBBS are the only professional paths one can take up on growing up. Although she did end up becoming an engineer, she realised there is more to life and that the exploration never ends. Shipra, who hails from […]

The Mahakal Temple in Ujjain recently denied entry to a former national volleyball player over her attire. Arunima Sinha is also the first amputee to scale Mt Everest. Her tweet about the incident to the PMO and CMO sparked a discussion in the administrative machinery. The minister then apologised to Arunima. She now has an open invitation to visit the […]

Conquering Mounts is probably the last thing a 9-year-old would dream. But Dhanshree Mehta has achieved this feat and created history. She scaled Mt Elbrus, one of the Seven Summits on 17 June 2017, 1:30 (Russian time). And with this, she has now become the youngest mountaineer from India to reach the summit. India not only cheered on […]

Bachendri Pal is an Indian mountaineer who became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. She was passionate about trekking and scaling summit of the region she was born in, Garhwal. She stood her ground and took on stiff opposition from her family when she decided to opt for a career […]