Kathmandu, Pune:
Marking a historic feat, 11 Indians, including a woman and a 19-year-old girl, conquered the Mount Everest on Thursday, a day that also saw a Nepalese Sherpa climbing the world's highest peak for a record 19th time.
Ten members of a team from the Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, led by NIM principal Col Mangal Murthi Masur, reached the 8,848-metre summit on Thursday morning.
"The 10 members, divided in two groups of five each, climbed the summit at 0500 hours and 0600 hours," an official of the leading mountaineering institute said.
Krishna Patil, a 19-year-old Pune girl, also conquered the Mount Everest, becoming the first Maharashtrian woman mountaineer to perform the feat.
"Krishna, who was part of the ten-member team 'Asian Trekking' commissioned in Nepal scaled the dream peak at 0700 hours today," his mother Ranjana Patil said, quoting a satellite communication received from her daughter.
The NIM climbing team also includes a woman, Kavita Budathoki from Uttarakhand. The others are Naib Subedar Dinesh Singh Rawat, Naib Subedar Pratap Singh Bisht, Naib Subedar Surinder Singh, Subedar Sital Singh, Inspector Love Raj Singh, Vishweshwar Prasad Semwal, Vinod Singh Gosain, Kushal Singh Rana and Dashrath Singh, the NIM official said.