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Shipra Mazumdar is a Major in the
Indian Army The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...
, and a member of the Indian Army women mountaineering team. She is a
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. She pursued Engineering at
Army Institute of Technology Army Institute of Technology is an engineering college located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. It is affiliated to the University of Pune. Only wards of army personnel are admitted in this institute. AIT is operated by the Army Welfare Education S ...
, Pune. She did her Basic and Advance Mountaineering Courses fro
Nehru Institute of Mountaineering
Uttarkashi.


Mountaineering expedition

At 9:30 a.m. on 2 June 2005, she reached the summit of
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with three other members of the team. They climbed from
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, using the
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route. Another mountaineering team from the Indian Air Force had reached the summit on 30 May. One member of that team, Squadron Leader S.S. Chaithanya, disappeared in a blizzard during the descent.


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 summiters by number of times to the summit The list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. Despite two hard years of disaster (2014 and 2015), by the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 ...
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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 compl ...
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List of Mount Everest records This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest. Records Highest number of times to reach the summit Other ...


References

Living people Indian summiters of Mount Everest Indian mountain climbers Indian female mountain climbers Year of birth missing (living people) {{climbing-bio-stub