NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday lauded the achievement of two young mountaineers, who had recently scaled Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, calling it “a great feat at a tender age.”
In his congratulatory message, Modi blessed the two young mountaineers, Poorna Malavath and Anand Kumar, both from Telangana, India’s newest state carved out of Andhra Pradesh.
Poorna had set a record of being the youngest female ever to reach the world’s highest peak at the age of 13 years and 11 months on May 25 this year.
She is a student of the Social Welfare Residential School in Nizamabad, Telangana. Her parents work as agricultural labourers.
Another teenager, Anand, also reached the summit of Mt. Everest the same day. He studies in the Social Welfare School in Khammam, Telangana. His father works as a mechanic in a cycle shop.