Vijayawada: As the Spring season approaching within months, the mountain climbers have been undergoing training to climb the world’s highest mountain Everest, rising more than 29,000 ft. above the sea level. In fact, many of them could not climb the Everest this year (2015) because of the earthquake in Nepal in last April.
Hyderabad based mountaineer Pudota Neillima, who caught in an avalanche in April this year at the Base Camp in Nepal, said that the mountaineering is an extreme adventure sport. She added that it needs to be given more importance in India considering the fact that the world’s largest mountains are closest to us. She is planning to climb the Mt. Everest in 2016 expedition. This would take place in the first week of April.
She stated that, climbing Mt. Everest was a challenge not only mentally and physically but also financially. It is this challenge of summiting Mt. Everest that I have given myself after returning from Everest this year amidst the earthquakes and avalanches.
Now she is searching sponsors for her expedition to Mt. Everest in April 2016. B. Shekar Babu, renowned mountaineer, coach and expedition organizer, said that so far there are two mountaineers from India and six foreigners approached him to climb the Everest and said the this number would rise.
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