Priyanka Mohite of Satara in western Maharashtra has climbed Mt. Annapurna, the world’s tenth highest mountain peak, marking the 1st Indian lady to do so.
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the Executive Chairperson of Biocon Limited, conveyed the news of the 28-year-old scaling the mountain.
“On April 16, 2021, at 1.30 p.m., our colleague Priyanka Mohite became the first Indian woman to summit Mt. Annapurna, the world’s 10th highest mountain (8091 metres). @SyngeneIntl is incredibly proud of her,” she sent out a tweet.
A picture of Priyanka Mohite hoisting the national flag atop the mountain was also tweeted by the Biocon CEO.
Mt. Annapurna is a Himalayan range in Nepal with one summit exceeding 8,000 metres and is regarded as one of the most difficult mountains to climb.
In addition, Priyanka has climbed Mount Everest (8,849 metres) in 2013, Mount Lhotse (8,516 metres) in 2018, Mount Makalu (8,485 metres), and Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 metres) in 2016. Priyanka has been interested in climbing since she was a youngster, and as a teenager, she began scaling mountains in Maharashtra’s Sahyadri range, and in 2012, she scaled Bandarpunch, a peak massif in the Garhwal division of the Himalayas.
Priyanka climbed Mt. Menthosa in Himachal Pradesh in 2015, which stands at 6443 metres and is the 2nd greatest peak in the Lahaul and Spiti area.
The Maharashtra Government’s Shiv Chhatrapati State award for adventure sports was also given to the Bengaluru-based climber in 2017-2018.
She works at Biocon’s research organization, Syngene International Limited, which provides pharma and biotechnology companies with customized solutions in synthetic chemistry and molecular biology for early-stage drug discovery & development. As per The Hindu.
