(1993-06-09) 9 June 1993 (age 30) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality
Indian
Arjun Vajpai (born 9 June 1993) is an Indian mountaineer, who became the world's youngest mountaineer to summit six peaks over 8,000 meters in the year 2018.[1]
Arjun climbed
Mount Everest in 2010 at the age of 16 years, 11 months and 18 days, becoming the youngest Indian to climb Everest at that time. [2] He broke a record set by
Krushnaa Patil of
Maharashtra who climbed the Everest at the age of 19.
On 20 May 2011, he became the youngest person ever to summit
Lhotse, aged 17 years, 11 months and 16 days.
Personal life
Arjun Vajpai is the son of Col. Sanjeev Vajpai and Priya Vajpai from
Noida. He studied at International School, Noida. He underwent training at the
Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand.[3]
Climbing career
Vajpai also climbed
Manaslu on 4 October 2011. After 3 failed attempts on
Mount Makalu, he climbed it on 22 May 2016, during his fourth attempt.[4]
Arjun Vajpai scaled
Cho Oyu accompanied by Pasang Norbu Sherpa and Lakpa Sherpa.[6]
During one of his attempts at Mount
Cho Oyu, Tibet (the easiest
8,000 metres peak),[7] in 2012, he was paralysed for two days, at an altitude of 22,000 feet (6,700 metres). The Swiss adventurer
Olivier Racine came to his rescue giving him appropriate medicine.[8][9]
Vajpai was rescued from Mount Annapurna in April 2023 while returning from the summit.[10][11]