Meet Priyanka Mohite, the first Indian woman to climb five 8000 m above peaks

Priyanka Mohite, a young woman of 30 from Satara district in Maharashtra, has made India proud by becoming the first Indian woman to climb five peaks above 8000 m. She achieved the feat after ascending Mount Kanchenjunga on Thursday.

Priyanka is also the recipient of Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award 2020. She finished her expedition to Mount Kanchenjunga which is 8586 m above sea level and also the third highest mountain on the planet on Thursday around 4.52 PM. The happy news was shared by her brother Akash Mohite.
Priyanka’s journey


Priyanaka had climbed Mt Annapurna which is 8091 m above sea level and also the 10th highest mountain peak in the world in April 2021. By doing so, she became the first Indian woman to do so.
Before this, Priyanka had scaled Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world standing at a height of 8849 m in 2013. Later in 2018, she climbed Mount Lhotse (8516 m), which is also the fourth highest mountain, Mount Makalu (8485 m) and Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m) in 2016.

It’s her childhood passion for mountaineering that today she was able to achieve her dreams. She started climbing mountains as a teenager in the Sahyadri range of Maharashtra. Then in 2012, she climbed Bandarpunch, which is a mountain massif of the Garhwal division of the Himalayas, in Uttarakhand.


Then In 2015, she went all the way climbing Mt. Menthosa which is 6443 m above sea level and also the second-highest peak in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh.

1. Name the highest mountain the world?
   Mount Everest
2. Who was the first Indian to scale Mount Everest?
   Autar Singh Cheema was the first Indian man and sixteenth person in world to climb Mount Everest in 1965.
3. Who was the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
   Bachendri Pal was the first Indian woman to scale Mount Everest in 1984.