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Premlata Agrawal (born 1963) is the first Indian woman to scale the Seven Summits, the seven highest continental peaks of the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013 and Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2017 for her achievements in the field of mountaineering . [ 3 ]
Sep 28, 2017 · Meet 54-year-old Premlata Agrawal, a homemaker who became the first Indian woman to have achieved the record of climbing the Seven Summits at the age of 50 and the oldest Indian woman mountaineer to scale the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest, in 2011. Conferred the prestigious Padma Shri in 2013 by the Government of India, she is also a ...
Premlata Agarwal is a mountaineer. This one word holds some of her greatest achievements. She is the first Indian woman to have climbed the Seven Summits or the seven highest peaks of the world. Hailing from Jamshedpur, Premlata started her career as a mountaineer in her late thirties under the guidance of Bachendri Pal.
Mar 13, 2019 · Ms Agrawal, 56, was awarded the Padma Shri in 2013 (File) New Delhi: Premlata Agrawal, the first Indian woman to conquer all the seven highest peaks across the globe, was just a housewife until ...
Premlata Agrawal recieved the Padma Shri in 2013 Challenges continued to dog her footsteps. During the Seven Summits expedition, language barriers, arising from having to travel across the world and interact with people from other cultures, had to be surmounted: so also difficulty in getting vegetarian food, climatic changes and a persistent pain from an old ankle injury.
As the Oldest Indian female mountaineer to climb the Mount Everest and the only Indian woman to have climbed the Seven Summits, Mrs. Agrawal discusses how, a...
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Meet Premlata Agarwal. She was a housewife and mother of to girls when she first took up mountaineering. It was at the age of 37 that she undertook her first climb. And since then, she has been on a wonderful journey full of memories and experiences. It was when she went to drop her two daughters for tennis practice that she first noticed ...
