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The Most Famous

MOUNTAINEERS from India

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This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Mountaineers. The pantheon dataset contains 45 Mountaineers, 4 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 8th most number of Mountaineers behind Switzerland and Nepal.

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Mountaineers of all time. This list of famous Indian Mountaineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Green Boots ( - 1996)

With an HPI of 59.28, Green Boots is the most famous Indian Mountaineer.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Green Boots is the body of an unidentified climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. The body has not been officially identified, but is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian member of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition (ITBP) who died as part of the 1996 climbing disaster on the mountain wearing green Koflach mountaineering boots. All expeditions from the north side encountered the body curled in the limestone alcove cave at 8,500 m (27,900 ft), until it was moved by the Chinese in 2014.

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2. Bachendri Pal (1954 - )

With an HPI of 47.79, Bachendri Pal is the 2nd most famous Indian Mountaineer.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Bachendri Pal (born 24 May 1954) is an Indian mountaineer. In 1984, she became the first Indian woman to climb the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest. She was awarded the third highest civilian award in India, Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2019.

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3. Arunima Sinha (1989 - )

With an HPI of 30.62, Arunima Sinha is the 3rd most famous Indian Mountaineer.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Arunima Sinha is an Indian mountaineer and sportswoman. She is the world's first female amputee to scale Mount Everest (Asia), Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa), Mount Elbrus (Europe), Mount Kosciuszko (Australia), Aconcagua (South America), Denali (North America) and Vinson Massif (Antarctica). She is also a seven time Indian volleyball player.She was pushed from a running train by robbers in 2011 while she was resisting them, causing in rods pushed into her left leg and multiple fractures of the spinal cord.Her aim was to climb each of the continent's highest peaks and hoist the national flag of India. She has already done six peaks until 2014: Everest in Asia, Kilimanjaro in Africa, Elbrus in Europe, Kosciuszko in Australia, Aconcagua in South America, and Denali in North America. She completed her final summit of Mount Vinson in Antarctica on 1 January 2019.In 2015, the Government of India honoured her with the Padma Shri award, the fourth highest civilian award of India.

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4. Malavath Purna (2000 - )

With an HPI of 17.21, Malavath Purna is the 4th most famous Indian Mountaineer.  Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.

Malavath Poorna (born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer. On 25 May 2014, Poorna climbed Mount Everest, aged 13 years and 11 months, the youngest female to have reached the summit. Purna climbed Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe on 27 July 2017. After reaching the summit of Elbrus, Poorna unfurled a 50 ft long Indian Tricolor and sang the Indian National Anthem. She completed the Seven Summits on 5 June 2022 climbing Denali, along with father-daughter duo Ajeet Bajaj and Deeya Bajaj. A film based on Poorna's life story was released in 2017 named Poorna: Courage Has No Limit directed by Rahul Bose.

Pantheon has 4 people classified as mountaineers born between 1954 and 2000. Of these 4, 3 (75.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living mountaineers include Bachendri Pal, Arunima Sinha, and Malavath Purna. The most famous deceased mountaineers include Green Boots. As of April 2022, 1 new mountaineers have been added to Pantheon including Green Boots.

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