Highlights:
• Priyanka is the winner of the Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2020,
• She finished her trek to Mount Kanchenjunga (8,586 m).
• The world’s third-highest mountain, at 4.52 p.m.
Priyanka Mohite of Satara in western Maharashtra became the first Indian woman to conquer five peaks above 8,000 meters after climbing Mount Kanchenjunga on Thursday 5th May.
According to her brother Akash Mohite, Priyanka (30), the winner of the Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2020, finished her trek to Mount Kanchenjunga (8,586 m), the world’s third-highest mountain, at 4.52 p.m.
The first Indian woman to summit Annapurna 8,091 meters
In April 2021, she became the first Indian woman to summit Mt Annapurna (8,091 meters), the world’s tenth highest Himalayan peak.
In 2013, Priyanka climbed Mount Everest (8,849 meters), Mount Lhotse (8,516 meters), Mount Makalu (8,485 meters), and Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters).Maharashtra’s Sahyadri range, and in 2012 she ascended Bandarpunch, a mountain massif in Uttarakhand’s Garhwal region of the Himalayas.
In 2015, Priyanka climbed Mt. Menthosa in Himachal Pradesh, which stands at 6443 meters and is the second-highest peak in the Lahaul and Spiti region.
In addition, the climber from Bengaluru received the Maharashtra Government’s Shiv Chhatrapati State Award for Adventure Sports for 2017-2018
