Kaamya Karthikeyan becomes youngest girl to summit Mt Aconcagua

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 7th standard student of Mumbai became the youngest girl in the world to summit Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America and outside of Asia.

New Delhi: Mumbai-based Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 7th standard student of Navy Children School in Mumbai, became the youngest girl in the world to summit Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America and outside of Asia, the Indin Navy said on Sunday.

Karthikeyan, who is the daughter of a Naval officer, summited the 6962 meters tall Argentinian mountain peak on February 1, 2020, the Navy said.

Karthikeyan has already scaled the highest peaks in Africa, Europe, and Australia in the past, including two peaks with heights of over 6000 meters above the sea level.

In August, last year, she summited Mt Mentok Kangri II, a 6,262 metres(20,544 feet) peak that overlooks Tso Moriri Lake in Ladakh. (ANI report)