Tripura woman reaches Everest base camp

Agartala: Piyali Deb, a mountaineer from Tripura, has become the first woman from the state to reach the Everest Base Camp. After a challenging four-day trek covering 70 kilometers from Kharikhola, near Kathmandu, she achieved this feat on Oct 24. Prior to Piyali’s achievement, another Tripura native, cyclist Bapi Debnath (Neel) from Chandrapur in Agartala, reached the Everest base camp in July this year. tnn