Kaamya Karthikeyan Sets Record as the Youngest Female to Conquer the Highest Peaks Across All Seven Continents.
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Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 17-year-old student from Navy Children School (NCS) in Mumbai, Maharashtra, has made history as the youngest female to scale the highest peaks on all seven continents.
- She achieved this incredible feat by successfully climbing Mount Vinson Massif (4,892 meters) in Antarctica on December 24, 2024, accompanied by her father, Commander S. Karthikeyan.
- In 2021, Kaamya was honored with the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Shakti Puraskar, India’s highest national award for young achievers.
- In 2017, she climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,685 m), the highest peak in Africa.
Main Point :- (i) In 2018, she scaled two peaks: Mt. Kosciuszko (2,228 m) in Australia and Mt. Elbrus (5,642 m) in Europe.
(ii) In 2020, she conquered Mt. Aconcagua (6,962 m), the tallest peak in South America, and in 2022, she summited Mt. Denali (6,190 m) in North America.
(iii) In May 2024, at the age of 16, she scaled Mt. Everest (8,849 m) in Asia, becoming India's youngest climber and the world’s second-youngest girl to summit the world's highest peak and Asia's tallest peak from the Nepal side.
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