Andhra Pradesh
Six Indian climbers today reached the top of Mt Everest, the world’s highest mountain, becoming the first group to successfully summit the peak this season. Most of them were from Andhra Pradesh.
The six Indian climbers and 10 Nepali Sherpas stood atop the 8,850-metre peak this morning, with the first climber reaching the summit at 8.20 am local time as others followed, said officials at the expedition organiser Transcend Adventures.
Suresh Babu, Durga Rao Kunja, Bharat Thammineni, Krishna Rao Vooyaka, Satya Rao Kare and Nagaraju Sundarana - along with the Sherpas - reached the peak from the northern Tibetan side.
Satya Rao, from Visakhapatnam followed Nagaraju, 20 minutes later to summit the Everest along with his Sherpa at 8.40am on May 13.
A post shared by Transcend Adventures (@transcendadventures) on May 12, 2017 at 7:20pm PDT
Bharat Thammineni hails from the Kurnool District of Andhra Pradesh. He is the son of late T. Nagaraju and T. Susheela. He was also a part of the 2015 Transcend Adventures Mt. Everest Expedition, but could not complete the summit due to the earthquake that struck Nepal.
A post shared by Transcend Adventures (@transcendadventures) on May 12, 2017 at 7:37pm PDT
Krishna Rao Vooyaka reached the summit of Mt. Everest along with his Sherpa on 13th May 2017 at 9:05 am.
A post shared by Transcend Adventures (@transcendadventures) on May 12, 2017 at 7:26pm PDT
Suresh Babu also was one among the six to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on the 13th of May, 2017!
A post shared by Transcend Adventures (@transcendadventures) on May 12, 2017 at 7:42pm PDT
A post shared by Transcend Adventures (@transcendadventures) on May 12, 2017 at 7:41pm PDT
Most of the Indian climbers were from Andhra Pradesh and come from low-income groups, according to a Facebook post by Transcend Adventures, a Hyderabad-based Adventure and Mountaineering Company.
On Thursday, nine Sherpas opened a climbing route to the summit point becoming the year’s first team to climb Mt Everest from Tibet side in the spring season. About 200 climbers along with their support staff will attempt their final summit pushes on Mt Everest from the northern side in the next couple of days, expedition organisers say.