{"id":6657,"date":"2023-01-16T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2023-05-11T07:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T07:29:27","slug":"woman-mountaineer-baljeet-who-scaled-heights-of-human-endurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citywoofer.com\/blog\/woman-mountaineer-baljeet-who-scaled-heights-of-human-endurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Mountaineer Baljeet Kaur Who Scaled Heights of Human Endurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

When your grit is as firm and high as a mountain, you will overcome every challenge and make your way to reach the summit. One such person, and that too a woman, who has scaled many peaks and mountains and her \u2018dil maange more\u2019 attitude doesn\u2019t let her stop is Baljeet Kaur from Solan district in Himachal Pradesh.<\/p>\n

She climbed the Mt Everest solo along with her guide Mingma Dai on May 21, 2022.\u00a0From April 28\u00a0 to May 28, 2022, she climbed five peaks back to back and broke many records.<\/p>\n

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The initiation into mountaineering\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

What started as a routine enrolment in NCC, led her to be trained vigorously for the first girls\u2019 expedition to the Mt Everest, the highest mountain in the world. While in college, she registered for the first all-girls expedition to Mt Everest. Only two women had to be selected from her college for the final expedition. She was weak to the bone, selectors rejected her, she did not give up, built her body by training herself in ground clearing, pushups, pullups and eating wholesome. She still failed to get selected, only two girls had to picked, they were already selected. Mountaineer Baljeet persisted with the selectors, so they kept her in reserve in case any one of them drops out. Fortunately, one of them backed out, Baljeet was in. Now, her training at the HMI (Himalyan Moutaineering Institute), Darjeeling, started where 100 girls were chosen for the training and only forty got selected for the expedition.<\/p>\n

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Apart from being born in a hilly state, she did not have any exposure or inclination or inspiration to climb snow-capped mountains and risk her life. What was it that pushed Baljeet to participate in Mt Everest expedition?<\/strong> At that point, she just thought of it as a route to get access to a government job, earning money for the family and make herself and her siblings complete their education.<\/p>\n

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Mountaineer Baljeet Kaur’s parents<\/div>\n

Daughter of a retired bus driver who is a small farmer now, this is what she longed for. If you thought this is the end of the story, she scaled Mt Everest and her story is over, you are wrong. This was her first exposure to the mountains and the first expedition straight to the Mt Everrst, might be good luck, you might think. Yes, she was a part of the first all-girls expedition to the Mt Everst, but among all other girls, she was the only one who could not reach the top as she fell 300 mt short of the summit<\/strong>, her oxygen mask stopped working, ice had set in inside, the guide put in some hot water which stiffened the ice more, she had to return back without reaching the summit. Now, Mountaineer Baljeet became more fierce in her determination and she said to the mountain: you failed me, now I will fail you, I\u2019 ll come back. Her small time ambition of getting a government job lay dead.<\/p>\n

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This was in 2016, and she promised the mountain she’ ll be back in 2020. The next three years she did not climb any mountain, she did small jobs to sustain her family, worked as a guide in trekking expeditions, undertook ski courses, group treks, expeditions etc and waited for her chance to again climb the mountains. Her chance came in 2021 in the form of the Mt Everest Massive expedition in which not only the Mt Everest but four other peaks had to be scaled by a group of six men and six women who were selected for different peaks-Mt Everest 1 man & 1 woman, Mt Lhotse 1 man & 1 woman, Mt Nuptse 2 women &2 men; Mt Pumori 2men &2women.\u00a0 Mountaineer<\/strong> Baljeet Kaur was selected for Mt Pumori and because first Indian woman to climb it<\/strong> and after this she climbed Mt Dhaulagiri (8167m) and again become the first woman from India to climb it.<\/p>\n

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