Photos: Youngest female to peak Mt. Everest is an Indian

Malavath Poorna is now the youngest female in the world to reach the summit- Mt. Everest, a dream for all adventure seekers around the world. At 6.30 in the morning of 25th May 2014, she unfurled the Indian tricolour at the highest point on this planet. She was just 13 years and 11 months at that time. Born of a very poor family of agricultural labourers, Poorna is also the youngest Indian to reach the summit. In fact she was just one month older then the youngest person ever to climb the Mount Everest successfully, who was a US boy. A ninth standard student at Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Educational Institutions Society’s school, Poorna struggled against all odds to be on top.  Hailing from a  background, where none of her villager folk have ever seen snow in their lives, Poorna achieved the feat in just nine months time from being selected for a rock climbing camp near Hyderabad (in September 2013) to reach to the top of the world. Unimaginable!!

(All photos are courtesy APSWREI and Transcend Adventures)

Poorna at the summit

The humbling feeling of being on top of world

The sign of victory, which was made possible by the accompanying sherpa who has himself been 17 times on the peak of Mt. Everest

And here is the tricolour on the top of world once again

Poorna also unfurled the flag of newly formed state of Telangana

A feat unimaginable

Tough climb to the peak

Waiting for climbers ahead to go further

Climbing Everest is no mean job

A terrain not so friendly, not so familiar

Resolve to face the challenge is to keep destiny in ones hands

Also see the video of her ascend-