by Vikram Sharma | Oct 8, 2025
(October 8, 2025) The extreme weather conditions and deadly crevasses kept challenging him; relentless physical exhaustion and homesickness tempted him to back down. But mountaineer Vishwanath Karthikey Padakanti simply wouldn’t give up. Having trained hard, he...
by Vikram Sharma | Aug 9, 2024
(August 9, 2024) Padakanti Vishwanath Karthikey used to be a lazy kid, for whom being healthy was not a priority. But that was until the day he, as an 11 year old, accompanied his sister Vaishnavi on a trek to Mt Rudugaira in Uttarakhand. He trekked till the first...
by Vikram Sharma | May 28, 2024
(May 28, 2024) On May 19, when Kaamya Karthikeyan and her father, an Indian Navy Commander S Karthikeyan were hours away from Camp 4 in Mount Everest, at an elevation of 7,950 metres (26,085 feet) — they were greeted by extremely heavy winds, laden with small pieces...
by Amrita Priya | Apr 11, 2024
(April 11, 2024) “Aconcagua, we came, we saw, we conquered,” said Ayaan Saboor Mendon after becoming the youngest mountaineer to ascend Mt. Aconcagua at the age of 9 years and 6 months, this February. “Being on top of the world at such a tender age...
by Namrata Srivastava | Jan 13, 2023
(January 13, 2023) When mountaineer Avtar Singh Cheema first decided to be a part of the Indian Army mission to scale Mt Everest in 1965, many in his village came to see him off, thinking they wouldn’t meet him again. He went on to become the first Indian to...
