While most teenagers are busy getting a new haircut, the latest gadgets or a fancy outfit for their birthday, Malavath Poorna had something else in mind. The 13 year old girl, daughter of poor farmers in a small village in Andhra Pradesh, decided to climb Mount Everest and became the youngest girl to do so.
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