Krushnaa Patil


Krushnaa Patil is an Indian mountaineer. In 2009, at the age of 19, she became the youngest Indian woman to successfully ascent Mount Everest, earth's highest mountain. She is also the first civilian woman from Maharashtra to scale the peak.
Her record of the youngest Indian to climb Everest has subsequently been surpassed by younger mountaineers. In 2010, Krushnaa attempted to ascent the Seven Summits. Her last summit on Mount McKinley had to be abandoned due to technical reasons, leaving her one short of completing the feat.

Background

For Krushnaa Patil's family, vacations were always in the Himalayas. As a 20-year-old she enrolled in the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering at Uttarkashi for a basic course in 2007 followed by an advance course in 2008.
Soon after, Patil got the chance to be a part of the pre-Everest expedition, and at 18, became the youngest person to scale the Mount Satopanth. Everest followed in May 2009, when she became the youngest Indian to summit the peak.

Mountaineering

Access water

Krushnaa is a part of an international expedition on clean water access and conservation program, which, through 2014 - 2020, will promote access to fresh water around the world with a team of eight women, from six continents.