Story of India's Youngest Female Mountaineer To Reach Mt. Everest

BENGALURU: “I come from a very poor family. My father and mother are agricultural laborers who spend hours in the fields trying to make ends meet. Both of them together earn 3,000 every month. Sending me and my siblings to school and looking after my family's needs is nothing but a challenge for them.”

This is a story of a young girl who is born into an under privileged family, which is not her fault. This could be the story of several other children born in India, who had to limit their dreams to reach the peaks. But, Malavath Poorna is no ordinary girl; a poor family did not stop her from reaching what she always dreamt of. Poorna today is the youngest female climber in the world to scale Mount Everest.

Poverty must not be a hindrance to grow for any bright child and Poorna stands as an inspiration to them. She was picked by Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Schools, a government organization that provides free education to children of under privileged families. Poorna expressed her enthusiasm for adventure sports and as part of the activities conducted by the organization, she was chosen for mountaineering expedition. The expedition was only meant for tribal kids and there she worked hard to make it big.

Poorna underwent training for eight months under harsh climatic conditions in Darjeeling and eventually learnt to adapt to sub-zero degrees temperatures. Her high endurance levels and enthusiasm made her eligible for this grand expedition which she successfully completed and today she is on top of the world.

In her words, “Climbing the Everest was certainly more difficult than I thought, but my willpower to prove that a tribal girl can do something kept me going. My head was held high when I raised India's flag on the world's highest peak.”

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