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Mountain Women Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal, born in 1954 is the first Indian woman to successfully climb Mount Everest in 1984. But her journey started form the remote Nakuri village in Uttarkashi in an ethnic Bhotiya family at a very young age. Her family and friends wanted her to be a school teacher in the normal way. But a school picnic during which she climbed a peak became the turning point in her life and she became the most famous Indian woman mountaineer till date. …