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Patna,(BiharTimes): Squadron Leader (Mrs) Nirupama Pandey, 30, originally from Jamo Jalalpur village in Siwan district, has become the first person from Bihar to scale Mount Everest on May 25, 2011.
She was a member of Indian Air Force’s mixed expedition team which was flagged off by Air Marshal J N Burma on April 13, 2011, in New Delhi. |
Nirupama is currently posted at Rajokri Air Force Station in New Delhi under the Western Air Force Command. Bihar has now joined the league of 14 states from where people have climbed Mt Everest so far. Only on May 20, that is five days before her, Premlata Agarwal of Jamshedpur in Jharkhand scaled Mount Everest at the age of 45. She became the oldest woman to achieve the feat in the country. She is the mother of two daughters, one of them married and represents Tata Steel.
However, Nirupama preferred to climb Mt Everest from the south ridge, the route which was followed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing in their first expedition in 1953.
Climbing Mount Everest from China side, according to her, is less painstaking. She got down from Mount Everest on June 5 along with other members of the expedition team. There were altogether 19 members in the team including 11 women officers of the IAF. She started her mountaineering career in 2007 by undergoing rigorous training at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering located at Uttarkashi. Her husband,
Squadron Leader Prakash Jha, who hails from Benipatti in Madhubani district of Bihar, and other family members always supported her in this venture.Nirupama, who got married to Prakash in August 2009,did her schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Pune and graduation and MBA from Ness Wadia College, Pune. She joined Indian Air Force as Flying Officer in 2003.
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