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Mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta on Wednesday became the youngest man to climb the seven highest peaks and volcanic summits across all continents after conquering Antartica's highest point, Mount Sidley.
Updated : Jan 16, 2019, 07:15 PM IST
Mountaineer Satyarup Siddhanta on Wednesday became the youngest man to climb the seven highest peaks and volcanic summits across all continents after conquering Antartica's highest point, Mount Sidley.
Satyarup summited Mt. Sidley at 6:28 IST, at a temperature of minus 40-degree Celsius according to the inReach Satellite Communicator he was carrying.
Satyarup achieved the feat at the age of 35 years 262 days while Australia's Daniel Bull did it aged 36 years 157 days.
At 10:10 Fluttered the india flag at sidley what a proud moment | Find me with inReach https://t.co/uNb1Kmko0r
— Satyarup Siddhanta (@SatyarupS) January 16, 2019
With this feat, Satyarup also became the first Indian to conquer the seven mountain peaks and seven volcanic summits.
"6:28 AM (IST) AT 10.10 successfully sumitted Mt Sidley highest volcanic peak of Antarctica. Fluttered the India flag at Sidley, what a proud moment," Satyarup tweeted.
Last year, the 35-year-old had scaled the highest volcanic peak in North America, Pico de Orizaba.
Satyarup hails from Haridevpur in South Kolkata and is a software engineer by profession. He is presently based out of Bangalore.
Satyarup, an asthma kid could never even dream of scaling the mountains or other sports. Things changed when in 2008 he went on trekking with his friends. That is the turning point in his life. He promised to the mountains to go back again and again and eventually become India's most successful mountaineers.
The biggest challenge he had to face is arranging the fund for such expensive expeditions. It was difficult to get sponsors. But nothing could stop him. Apart from sponsorship, crowdfunding he took personal loans and auctioned his summit mementos to make his dream come true.
The chronology of his success:
7 summits: ( 9 peaks)
Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa ( 5895 metres) - twice on 29 June 2012 & 14 June 2018
Mt Elbrus, Europe (5642 m) - 27 June 2013
Mt Aconcagua, South America(6962m)- 13 January 2014
Mt Denali, North America (6190m)- 23 June 2014
Mt Mont Blanc, Western Europe (4810 m)- 23 September 2014
Mt Kosciuszko, Australia ( 2228 m)-12 June 2015
Mt Everest, Asia ( 8848 m)- 21 May 2016
Mt Carstenz, Oceania (4884 m)- 13 June 2017
Mt Vinson Massif, Antarctica (4892 m)- 15 December 2017
7 Volcanic Summits:
Mt Kilimanjaro
Mt Elbrus
Mt Ojos Del Salado, South America (6893 m) - 15 January 2018
Mt Damavand, Asia ( 5610 m) - 10 September 2018
Mt Giluwe, Oceania (4367 m)- 9 November 2018
Mount Pico de Orizaba, North America- 5 December 2018
Mount Sidley, Antarctica (4285 m)- 15th January 2019