- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
Indian mountaineer Arjun Vajpai has become the youngest person in the world to scale six peaks of over 8,000 metres. On May 20, the Noida-based mountaineer summited Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world, to achieve this honour. Vajpai says the feat was possible as a result of the “combined effort” of a team of sherpas and mountaineers. This was Vajpai’s second attempt on Kangchenjunga as bad weather played spoilsport during his first attempt in 2017. “There was no perfect recipe but a little of everything mixed into the mess. So in the end it was like a beautiful montage…
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