Arjun Vajpai

Born on 9th June 1993, Arjun Vajpai is the youngest mountaineer in the world who has summitted six top mountain peaks above 8000m. He has recently summitted Mt. Kanchenjunga, India's highest mountain and technically the most arduous. Looking over his commendable journey to reach the top highest peaks of the world, one could never imagine that this 24-year man had Asthma in his early stages of life. Arjun decided to go for mountaineering at a very young age inspite of his physical incapabilities and underwent training at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.

Achievements-

• 2010- Arjun was only 16 when he became the third youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest.
• 2011- In May, Arjun summitted Lhotse, being the youngest climber ever to achieve this peak. The same year in October, Arjun was declared to be the youngest mountaineer to summit Manaslu.
• 2012- He made his first attempt to Cho-oyu during which he had a clash with career-threatening paralysis.
• 2015- Arjun along with fellow mountaineer Bhupesh Kumar, created history by exploring a peak of Himachal's Spiti valley (20,280 feet high) that had not been summitted earlier and named it Mount Kalam in memory of the missile man Dr Abdul Kalam.
• 2016- On 23rd March, Arjun succeeded in summitting the fifth highest mountain in the world Makalu, after his 3 unsuccessful attempts
• 2018- Arjun hoisted the Indian flag at Mt. Kanchenjunga (India's highest and world's third highest mountain) on 20th May.