Raghav Joneja (born ) is the second-youngest
Indian to climb
Mount Everest on 21 May 2013 at the age of 15 years and 7 months. He was part of an expedition by the students of
The Lawrence School, Sanawar which was the youngest team in the world to climb the mountain. Lawrence became the first school in the world to send a team to the highest peak.
The expedition consisted of seven boys with their
sherpas
The Sherpa are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal, Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Himalayas. The term ''sherpa'' or ''sherwa'' derives from the Sherpa language words ("east") ...
, three fathers as a support team, and another four old Sanawarians, who joined the group from here to the base camp for 21 days to give them moral support. Col. Neeraj Rana, ex-director of
Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI), was the mentor for the expedition which 9 April arrived at
Lukla,
Nepal from where the group trekked for nine days to the base camp. At the base camp, they acclimatised for nearly a month and began the final ascent on 17 May.
See also
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Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
The first attempts to summit Mount Everest by Indians were in 1960. The first Indians to reach the summit were a group led by Captain M.S. Kohli in 1965. 422 Indians made a total of 465 attempts between 1965 and 2018. These include 43 repeat at ...
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List of Mount Everest records of India
This is list of Mount Everest records of Indian nationals have achieved.
Records
* Chhanda Gayen became the first Indian to climb to the summit of any two Eight-thousanders - Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse in one go on 18 May 2013. She comple ...
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List of Mount Everest records
References
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Living people
Indian mountain climbers
Indian summiters of Mount Everest
Place of birth missing (living people)
1997 births