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Deeya Suzannah Bajaj (born 9 March 1994) is an Indian adventure sports athlete.[1] She completed climbing the Seven Summits on 5 June 2022.

Biography

Bajaj is the daughter of Shirly Thomas Bajaj and Ajeet Bajaj (Indian adventurer and Padma Shri awardee).[2] She is a PADI certified rescue diver[3] and has completed an advance course in mountaineering from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.[4]

Adventure

At the age of 17, Bajaj participated in a 550 km long cross country skiing expedition,[5] where she skied across the Greenland Icecap to raise funds for a children's home.[6] She was the youngest in the world at the time to have completed the expedition.[7]

On 16 May 2018 Bajaj and her father became the first Indian father-daughter duo to climb Mount Everest.[8][9][10][11] They are also the first parent-child team to have climbed Everest from the North Side (Tibet). The climb was undertaken to support the cause of the girl child in India.[12] The father-daughter team has climbed all of the Seven Summits including Mount Everest, Denali, Aconcagua, Vinson, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, Puncak Jaya and Mount Kosciuszko.[13][14]

Awards

  • Meri Dilli Award in the category "Adventure Sports" 2012[15]
  • TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) Aspire Young Achievers Award ‘In appreciation of unrivalled contributions as a role model for the Youth of India’ 2012[16][6]
  • Adventure Tour Operators Association Of India "Adventurer Of the Year" 2013[17]

References

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