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13-year-old girl, Malavath Poorna, is the youngest climber to scale Mount Everest

She is the 9th standard student of AP Social Welfare Residential Education School/College for Girls, Thadwai, Nizamabad District. Pooran joined in VI class in APSWRE School in 2010 and never considered that she would travel up to Himalayas. Poorna was one of the youngest to conquer Mt. Renock (17,000ft) on 10th November 2013 too.

Being trained by Gowlidoddi and Bhongir rock climbing school of Treanscend Adventures Pvt. Ltd. and the experts of Himalayan Mountaineering Institute located South of Sikkim, her level of confidence and both mental and physical skills are strong. Even when there was no sign that she would be chosen out of 20 SWAEROES to climb the Mount Everest, she explains how she understands the toughness of scaling the Everest. She said "I have some idea of it after trekking the Mt. Renock. I will prove it."
After accomplishing the feat she said: "Climbing the Everest was certainly more difficult than I thought – but my willpower to prove that a tribal girl can do something kept me going ... My head was held high when I raised India's flag on the world's highest peak."

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