Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru (The Mysterious Mountain Girl) is an Indian mountaineer who is on her Mission to climb all the Highest peak of 7 continents known as Mission7Summit and to reach the farthest point on the globe "The South Pole" and "The North Pole" to contest for the Gland Slam youngest Girl in the World. She became the youngest girl in the world to scale Mt. Elbrus (5,642 m), Europe's tallest peak. She created this record on July 31, 2015 at the age of 13 years and 8 months.
Earlier, on October 2, 2014, Jaahnavi had become the youngest Asian girl from India to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), the highest mountain of Africa.
She also became the youngest Indian to climb the highest peak of Australia - Mt. Kosciuszko (2,228 m) and also created a new record by completing the Aussie 10 Challenge in 4 days, by climbing all the 10 highest peaks of Snowy mountains.
She is also the youngest person to have reached the summit of Stok Kangri on August 14, 2014 at 12 years of age.
In February 2016, she created yet another unique record, by becoming the Youngest Mt.Everest Base Camp Guide. She accomplished this tough assignment by guiding a 10 years old girl and her Mother after training them both for nearly 3 months with the help of her Personal Fitness Coach Mr. Nagapuri Ramesh and her Mentor and Guide, her Father Dr. S. Krishna Rao.
Her recent accomplishments was in North America's highest peak Mt. Denali (also known as Mt. McKinley) in the month of July '2016 along which she also became the First Indian Born Telugu Girl to be Invited to The White House to take part in National South Asian Symposium wherein she got an opportunity to interact with the High officials of the First Lady's office and The President.
Apart from her adventure career, she is also a Classical Dancer (Bharathnatyam) and also a good Painter.
Video Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru
Early Life
Jaahnavi started her wilderness career at a very tender age of 10 months only, along with her parents Dr. S. Krishna Rao (Father) and Mrs. S. Saraswathi (Mother). By the age 3 years, she used to accompany her father in different Treks and Expeditions along with other children and be her father's Assistant in helping him during the Trek. By the age of 10 years, she had completed nearly 2 High Altitude Treks, 5 National Treks and around 25 Local Treks.
Maps Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru
Mission7Summit Climbs
These are part of Jaahnavi's #Mission7Summit, through which she wants to climb the tallest peaks of every continent so as to raise funds to educate the underprivileged girls in India.
Other Notable Climbs
Reason of her Mission
Apart from her regular Mountaineering passion, Jaahnavi works for the development of Girl Child in India. She wants to raise funds from her climbing and educate underprivileged girls and train them with Life Skills. Her ultimate dream is to make each and every girl child of India Tough and educate them through her NGO under the name JanJay Foundation.
Jaahnavi is also a Motivational Speaker and gives the talk and inspires not only Youth but also Adults and takes part in different Symposiums and Discussions. She goes around villages and suburbs to educate girls and also gives talks in schools, colleges and different organisations including MNC's.
She also became the Youngest speaker for the TEDxHyderabad 2016 and was also the Special Invitee Speaker for TEDxBVRIT.
On 3rd November '2017, she was the Youngest Speaker in TEDxDSCEWomen in Bangalore.
She gives commercials related to girl empowerment and sends messages for Girl Stereotypes for Gender equality.
Her recent campaign #AmPrettyTough through one of the leading cosmetic company of India, Dabur Gulabari, has brought about a major change in the thought process of "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover". In this campaign, Jaahnavi was shown as a Girly Girl. She takes parts in different activities to promote her Mission and spread the Word #AmPrettyTough breaking the gender equality.
Achievements and Awards
- TV 9 Naveena Mahila Awards - Young Achiever of the Year - 2015
- Rotary International Vocational Award - 2015
- Youngest Speaker of TEDxHyderabad - 2016
- MegaTV National Awards - Young Achiever of the Year - 2016
See also
- Mountaineering in India
- Seven Summits
References
External links
- www.jaahnavi.com
Source of article : Wikipedia
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