List of Mount Everest records of India
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- In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest[5][6]
- Phu Dorjee (d. 1987) in 1984 became the first Indian to make a solo ascent of Mount Everest and also the first to climb without supplemental oxygen.[7][8]
- Santosh Yadav is the first Indian woman to summit twice (1992 and 1993)
- Premlata Agarwal - the first Indian woman mountaineer to complete the Seven Summits and one of the oldest Indian women mountaineers to summit Mount Everest, at age 48, in 2011
- Chhanda Gayen became the first Indian to climb to the summit of any two Eight-thousanders - Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse in one go on 18 May 2013. She completed the traverse the summit of Mount Everest to the summit of Mount Lhotse in 22 hours.[9][10]
- Tashi and Nungshi Malik became the first female twins to scale Mount Everest on 19 May 2013.
- Ajeet Bajaj and Deeya Bajaj became the first father-daughter team to climb Mount Everest from India, on May 16, 2018.[11] They are the first father-daughter team in the world to climb the North Side of Mount Everest.[12]
- 53-year-old Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl, a Miss India finalist in 1985, became the oldest Indian woman to scale the world's highest peak on May 19, 2018.[13]
- First Gujarati sisters to climb Mount Everest, Aditi Vaidya (25 yrs.) and Anuja Vaidya (21 yrs.) Reached the top on 22 May 2019. They are from Surat.[14]
- Satish Gogineni is the fastest Indian to summit two 8000ers. In 2022 he summited Mount Everest and Mount Lhotse within 20 Hours.[15]
- Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu - climbed Mount Everest seven times.
Year wise records
2018
- Ajeet Bajaj and Deeya Bajaj became the first father-daughter team to climb Mount Everest from India.[11] They are the first father-daughter team to climb the North Side of Mount Everest.[12]
- Shivangi Pathak born and currently living in Hisar District in Haryana, also summited on 16 May 2018. She is the youngest Indian Women to Climb from the South Side.[16][17]
2017
- Anshu Jamsenpa, from Bomdilla in Arunachal Pradesh, became the first woman to make a dual ascent of Mount Everest within a span of five days, setting the record for fastest double ascent in a single climbing season by a woman. This is a new world record set by the woman who broke the previous record of Nepal's Chhurim Sherpa, who had ascended Mount Everest twice in a week in 2012. Jamsenpa reached the summit of the world's highest mountain for the second time on 21 May 2017.[18]