Deeya Suzannah Bajaj (born 9 March 1994) is an Indian adventure sports athlete. She completed climbing the

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on 5 June 2022.

Biography

Bajaj is the daughter of Shirly Thomas Bajaj and Ajeet Bajaj (Indian adventurer and

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awardee). She is a PADI certified rescue diver and has completed an advance course in mountaineering from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.

Adventure

At the age of 17, Bajaj participated in a 550 km long cross country skiing expedition, where she skied across the Greenland Icecap to raise funds for a children's home. She was the youngest in the world at the time to have completed the expedition. On 16 May 2018 Bajaj and her father became the first Indian father-daughter duo to climb Mount Everest. They are also the first parent-child team to have climbed Everest from the North Side (Tibet). The climb was undertaken to support the cause of the girl child in India. The father-daughter team has climbed all of the Seven Summits including

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, Elbrus,

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and

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Awards

* Meri Dilli Award in the category "Adventure Sports" 2012 * TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) Aspire Young Achievers Award ‘In appreciation of unrivalled contributions as a role model for the Youth of India’ 2012 * Adventure Tour Operators Association Of India "Adventurer Of the Year" 2013

References

External links

* TEDx
The Spirit Of Adventure'
* TEDx
Beyond Everest

Website
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