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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.

At 1:07 p.m. IST, a day before her 30th birthday and six days before the 31st anniversary of the first ascension to Mount Everest, Bachendri Pal created history.

Mountaineers Poorna Malavath,17, and Sri Vidya,16, scaled Mount Elbrus at 5,640m!

Six-year-old Advait Bhartiya from Pune has set a record by becoming the youngest mountaineer from Maharashtra to reach the Mount Everest base camp,

Major Deepika Rathore who recently became the only woman from Rajasthan – and perhaps from the Indian Army as well – to scale the mighty Everest for a second time, as part of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) first expedition of 10 girls between 19-21 years of age.

Leslie John Binns, a UK ex-serviceman, was barely 500 metres away from the summit of Mount Everest when he decided to turn around, give up him life-long dream, and save the life of another mountaineer who needed help.

Aparna is also the first civil servant to scale the highest peaks of six out of seven continents.

Meet G R Radhika, the lady who has achieved the incredible feat of becoming the first woman police officer from the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to scale the 7,077 metres high Mount Kun of Kashmir. We salute her spirit of adventure.

Kandarp and Ritvika are in grade one and four respectively, and they might be the youngest climbers to have reached the base camp of Mount Everest. They have also climbed the Kalapathar peak.

A team of nine mountaineers conquered Mount Everest 50 years ago and created many records. Here's a look at the amazing team.