Anshu Jamsenpa

Dr. Anshu Jamsenpa is an Indian mountaineer, born on December 31^st, 1979 at Bomdila, West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. Anshu is the second woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a single season. She is the fastest double summiteer to Climb Mt. Everest within 5 days. 

Major Achievements-

• Anshu summited the world’s tallest mountain Mt. Everest twice in a single season on May 12 and May 21, 2011.
• Anshu got featured in Limca Book of World Records in 31st January 2012 and became the first person of Arunachal Pradesh to achieve this feat.
• Anshu was awarded Woman Achiever of the Year 2011-12 by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry on 2^nd June 2012 in Guwahati. 
• She again summited (third time) the Mount Everest in 2013
• Dr. Anshu Jamsenpa created history in 2017. She became the first woman in the world to summit the Mount Everest twice in a season and she climbed twice within 5 days. This is the fastest double ascents of the tallest crest by an Indian woman. This was her fifth summit and after then she became the first Indian woman who climbed the Mt. Everest most of the time (5 times).
• The Indian President, Shri Ram Nath Kovind presented the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2017 (India's Highest Adventure Award) to Anshu Jamsenpa for making history (the first woman and also the first mother who completed twice double summits in Everest, first Indian woman to summit the Mt.Everest five times) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on September 25, 2018.