Who has become the India’s first civil servant to successfully scale Mount Vinson Massif?
Who has become the India’s first civil servant to successfully scale Mount Vinson Massif?
[A]Pankaj Chauhan
[B]Aniket Darra
[C]Aparna Kumar
[D]Sudha Gupta
Aparna Kumar
Aparna Kumar, a 2002-batch IPS officer from Uttar Pradesh cadre, has become the India’s first civil servant to successfully scale Antarctica’s highest peak Mount Vinson Massif. She climbed the 17,000-feet-high peak and hoisted the Tricolour and the UP police flag there. Earlier, she had successfully scaled Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Originally written on
January 30, 2016
and last modified on
January 30, 2016.