1989-10-30 (age 37)
Pune, Maharashtra
Ashwini
Indian
mountaineer, motivational speaker
Second youngest Indian to summit Mt. Everest in 2009
Krushnaa Patil is an Indian mountaineer. In 2009, at the age of 19, she became the youngest Indian woman to successfully ascent Mount Everest, earth's highest mountain.[1] She is also the first civilian woman from Maharashtra to scale the peak.
Her record of the youngest Indian to climb Everest has subsequently been surpassed by younger mountaineers.[2] In 2010, Krushnaa attempted to ascent the Seven Summits. Her last summit on Mount McKinley had to be abandoned due to technical reasons, leaving her one short of completing the feat.[3]
Background
For Krushnaa Patil's family, vacations were always in the Himalayas. She enrolled in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) at Uttarkashi for a Basic Mountaineering Course in 2007 followed by an Advance Mountaineering Course in 2008.
Soon after, Patil got the chance to be a part of the pre-Everest expedition, and at 18, became the youngest person to scale the Mount Satopanth (Garhwal Himalayas in Uttarakhand). Everest followed in May 2009, when she became the second youngest Indian (after Dicky Dolma) to summit the peak.
Mountaineering
Seven Summits Challenge Timeline of mountaineer Krushnaa Patil
Access water
Krushnaa is a part of an international expedition on clean water access and conservation program,[4] which, through 2014 - 2020, will promote access to fresh water around the world with a team of eight women, from six continents.[5]
See also
- Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
- List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
- List of Mount Everest records of India
- List of Mount Everest records
References
- ↑ Krushnaa Patil is the youngest woman in India to climb Mount Everest.
- ↑ Indian Girl, 13, Becomes the Youngest Person to Climb Mount Everest. People(7 June 2014).
- ↑ After Everest, Krushnaa Patil sets sight on new peaks(8 March 2011).
- ↑ From Ganga to Antarctica: Seven women gear up for expedition to highlight clean water shortage.
- ↑ All women international team on an expedition to Mississippi for 'Access Water'(21 September 2017).