Raghav Joneja, Date of Birth

    

Raghav Joneja

Indian mountain climber

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1997

Profession: mountaineer

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Raghav Joneja

  • Raghav Joneja (born (1997-10-21)October 21, 1997) is the second-youngest Indian to climb Mount Everest on 21 May 2013 at the age of 15 years and 7 months.
  • He was part of an expedition by the students of The Lawrence School, Sanawar which was the youngest team in the world to climb the mountain.
  • Lawrence became the first school in the world to send a team to the highest peak. The expedition consisted of seven boys with their sherpas, three fathers as a support team and another four old Sanawarians, who joined the group from here to the base camp for 21 days to give them moral support.
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  • Neeraj Rana, ex-director of Himalayan Mountaineering Institute (HMI), was the mentor for the expedition which 9 April arrived at Lukla, Nepal from where the group trekked for nine days to the base camp.
  • At the base camp they acclimatised for nearly a month and began the final ascent May 17.

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