15-year old Raghav Joneja from Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh has become the youngest Indian to scale the Mount Everest. Raghav, along with his five schoolmates, summited the highest peak in the world, breaking the record set by 16-year old Manipur's Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba. A student of Lawrence School, Sanawar, Raghav achieved the remarkable feat on May 21, after embarking on an arduous 56 day-long journey.In the process, the team from one of Asia's extant boarding schools, in Kasauli, became the youngest group and the first school team in the world, to reach the top of the 8,848 metres mountain range.After achieving the feat, Raghav said that they trained for around eight months for this expedition, and it felt really good to become the youngest Indian to summit such a tough peak. He said, climbing the peak with his schoolmates made it a little easier.The team now harbours ambitions to scale Seven Summits, the highest mountains of each of the seven continents, which is regarded as a mountaineering challenge.
News On AIR | June 4, 2013 12:56 PM
15-year old Indian schoolboy scales Mt. Everest