Everest conquerer to address alumni meet
: Squadron Leader Nivedita Choudhary, the first woman from Rajasthan to summit Mount Everest, is returning to her alma mater, Arya Engineering College in Jaipur, after 12 years to talk about her achievements.
Choudhary, 33, will address a group of engineering students on the occasion of Teachers’ Day.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) officer, who is posted in Hindon Air Force Station near Delhi, graduated in BTech from the college in 2006.
“I vividly remember that one hour I spent on the world’s highest peak on May 21, 2011. It etched my name history,” she said.
A year before the Everest summit, Choudhary scaled the 7,557-metre Mt. Kamet, India’s highest climbing peak. She underwent a month-long training in basic mountaineering in Darjeeling in November 2009 and was chosen to be on the IAF mountaineers’ team for the
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Everest expedition.
“My college has invited me to speak about my achievements,” she said, adding that she has done several other expeditions after the Everest summit. “I did an alpine expedition on Mount Trishul in western Kumaon (7120m) before I got in the family way. I have taken a break from mountaineering because my daughter is only one and a half years old,” she added.
Daughter of a farmer from Jhunjhunu, Choudhary said mountaineering was never her first love. “I always wanted to wear a uniform for my country. My heart was set on flying,” she added. She said she was in the NCC Air Wing in college.