{"id":9206,"date":"2022-01-04T16:21:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T10:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/?post_type=story&#038;p=9206"},"modified":"2025-10-16T12:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T06:34:31","slug":"indian-youth-12-year-old-kaamya-karthikeyan-is-working-towards-being-the-youngest-to-complete-the-explorers-grand-slam","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/old.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/cover-story\/indian-youth-12-year-old-kaamya-karthikeyan-is-working-towards-being-the-youngest-to-complete-the-explorers-grand-slam\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian mountaineer, 12-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan is working towards being the youngest to complete the explorer\u2019s grand slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(January 4, 2022)<\/strong> In early 2020, Indian girl mountaineer Kaamya Karthikeyan travelled halfway around the world to reach Mendonza in Argentina &#8212; the base town for Mount Aconcagua. Accompanied by her father, an Indian Navy officer, the mountaineer was to obtain a special permit from the Aconcagua National Park to scale the highest mountain peak of the Andes mountains. Yet, within hours of her arrival, she was confronted by a mountain of challenges, not just the permit. As a minor, the authorities wanted a resolution from the court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will a 12-year-old be able to climb this mountain peak?\u201d the\u00a0court enquired, ordering a series of medical tests. Stranded for 14 days, experiencing red-tapism on foreign soil,\u00a0finally luck favoured Kaamya. The judge went on leave, was replaced, and he fortuitously was a mountaineer himself!\u00a0\u00a0He swiftly went through Kaamya&#8217;s credentials and granted her a permit.\u00a0Challenges overcome, Kaamya made India proud\u00a0by\u00a0becoming the youngest in the world to summit Mt Aconcagua.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9220\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9220\" class=\"wp-image-9220 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5.Kilimanjaro-Summit.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"470\" height=\"627\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 470px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 470\/627;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9220\" class=\" wp-image-9220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/5.Kilimanjaro-Summit.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"470\" height=\"627\" \/><\/noscript><p id=\"caption-attachment-9220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaamya Karthikeyan at the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro<\/p><\/div>\n<h5><strong>The 14-year-old Indian mountaineer<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I felt tired, I did not look at how much more was left. I looked back at how much I had climbed and put one step in front of the other. I was right in front of the pack, happily chatting with the\u00a0guides ,\u201d smiles Kaamya Karthikeyan in an exclusive chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Global Indian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) in August 2007, Kaamya was barely three when she started accompanying her parents on trails in Lonavala, where her father Navy commander S Karthikeyan was posted. By seven, she was trekking the Himalayas. Her\u00a0first expedition above 6,000 meters to Mount Stok Kangri in August 2017 made her the youngest girl in the world to have scaled a peak at those dizzy heights. \u201cScaling this peak three days short of my 10th birthday was special. I had been to the base in 2012 when my dad was climbing it, and had wondered when I would climb\u00a0it too. There I was, after five years,\u201d says Kaamya, now 14, and a class nine student at Navy Children\u2019s School in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9222\" style=\"width: 606px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9222\" class=\"wp-image-9222 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7.-Stok-Kangri-Summit.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"596\" height=\"398\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 596px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 596\/398;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9222\" class=\" wp-image-9222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7.-Stok-Kangri-Summit.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"596\" height=\"398\" \/><\/noscript><p id=\"caption-attachment-9222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaamya Karthekiyan with her parents at Mt Stok Kangri<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Her father had completed his mountaineering courses and was training in and around Lonavala. Both Kaamya and her mother would accompany him on easy trails, and that is where her love for the wild was cemented. Once her Navy father started leading expeditions, his daughter wondered why mountains attracted her father so much to leave the family for days on end. She asked her mother, and \u201cshe told me to find out first-hand. So I did my first Himalayan trek in Uttarakhand,\u201d says Kaamya, whose mother Lavanya Karthikeyan heads a Kindergarten school.<\/p>\n<p>She explored beautiful treks across Chandrashila, Kedarkantha, Roopkund, Brighu Lake, Har-ki-dun and Sar Pass. In May 2017, she trekked to the Everest base camp. After climbing Stok Kangri, the Indian girl mountaineer asked her father what next. He questioned whether she even realises that she had climbed a peak higher than the highest peaks in five of the seven continents!<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Mission SAHAS<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>\u201cThat is when we got the idea of Mission SAHAS,\u201d informs the teen.\u00a0Under the umbrella of Mission SAHAS, Kaamya climbed the highest peaks of Africa (Mt Kilimanjaro), Europe (Mt Elbrus &#8211; where she set the world record for being the world\u2019s youngest to ski descent from the peak), Australia (Mt Kosciuszko) and South America (Mt Aconcagua). \u201cI also climbed Mt Mentok Kangri in Leh in 2019,\u00a0summitting\u00a0my second 6,000\u00a0metres\u00a0plus peak as a practice climb prior to climbing Aconcagua,\u201d informs Kaamya, who is an avid runner, cyclist, skier and scuba diver.<\/p>\n<p>Conquering Aconcagua has brought laurels her way &#8211; The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for her remarkable feat, and she was the first to virtually interact with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in February 2020. \u201cI was elated. The PM advised me to treat this award as a stepping stone for future accomplishments and not as an achievement by itself,\u201d says the girl whose\u00a0newfound interest is debating, and has tried to get into the national debating squad, and is also the first runner-up at Mindwars &#8212; a debating TV championship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9223 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9.-Profile.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"492\" height=\"875\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 492px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 492\/875;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9223 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9.-Profile.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"492\" height=\"875\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Training hard, and long<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Training for such expeditions is tough. Kaamya would run over 10 km or cycle for 20-25 km four days a week. On other days, she would do indoor exercises or climb stairs at her 21-storeyed apartment complex in Mumbai (helped train her muscles). And on weekends, a trek on the Sahyadri mountains helped with balance training.<\/p>\n<p>Gulmarg has been her winter training ground for the past six years. \u201cIn early 2021, I had the opportunity to train with the Army\u2019s High Altitude Warfare School where I practiced techniques like walking with trekking shoes, skis and sledge pulling,\u201d informs the hardworking girl who has also participated in the junior national skiing and snowboarding championship in Gulmarg.<\/p>\n<p>In the tough terrain of Arunachal Pradesh, she also did a basic mountaineering course from the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The future is bright, and peaking<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Kaamya\u2019s schedule is packed in 2022-2023. \u201cI hope to climb Mt Denali (the highest peak in North America), Mt Vinson Massif (highest in Antarctica) and ski to the South Pole. That would leave Mount Everest and a ski traverse to the North Pole for me to complete my mission and become the youngest in the world to have completed the Explorer\u2019s Grandslam\u00a0at just 15,\u201d she pipes.<\/p>\n<p>Before her expedition to Mt Elbrus, she had the opportunity to meet legendary naval mountaineer Captain MS Kohli, the leader of the first successful Indian expedition to Everest in 1965. \u201cHe told me whenever I felt tired on a mountain, I should always look back instead of looking ahead &#8212; \u00a0advice that has greatly helped me,\u201d says Kaamya who is also learning Bharatnatyan, and is a grade 2 and grade 5 pass piano player (Trinity College of Music).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9216 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/11.-Dance.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"479\" height=\"639\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 479px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 479\/639;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9216 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/11.-Dance.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"479\" height=\"639\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h5><strong>The will to succeed<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy the journey, not just the destination. I love being in nature\u2019s lap and pushing myself. I like the competition within &#8211; it keeps me going,\u201d says the girl whose mother was her trekking-partner early on, and now with climbs getting tougher, treks with her father. She thanks her school for being supportive too.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain climbing has its own perils, and Kaamya \u00a0recalls an avalanche hit her group during her recent expedition on Mt Trishul in October 2021. \u201cSadly, we lost a few close friends but thankfully we returned safe. It has made me more respectful of the mountains, and more determined. Mission SAHAS is my way of paying tribute to the lost souls,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9226\" style=\"width: 1090px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9226 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8.-Training-in-Gulmarg.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"1080\" height=\"607\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1080px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1080\/607;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9226\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/8.-Training-in-Gulmarg.jpg\" alt=\"Indian Mountaineer | Kaamya Karthekiyan | Global Indian Youth \" width=\"1080\" height=\"607\" \/><\/noscript><p id=\"caption-attachment-9226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kaamya Karthikeyan training in Gulmarg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not sure how she finds time for normal girly activities amidst peak hunting, she loves reading adventure\/crime thrillers, the <em>Famous Five<\/em> series by Enid Blyton, and Agathe Christie. Her idea of a birthday celebration is to take her friends for a hike!\u00a0\u201cThe path to the summit is not easy. But if I can do it, so can you,\u201d smiles the mountaineer who always carries a small idol of Lord Krishna, and always bring down something special from each expedition as a souvenir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Kaamya Karthikeyan on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kaamya.sahas\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalindian.com\/youth\/story\/startups\/britains-youngest-entrepreneur-ranveer-singh-sandhu\/\">Britain\u2019s youngest entrepreneur<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(January 4, 2022) In early 2020, Indian girl mountaineer Kaamya Karthikeyan travelled halfway around the world to reach Mendonza in Argentina &#8212; the base town for Mount Aconcagua. 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As a minor, the authorities wanted a resolution from the court. &#8220;Will a 12-year-old be able to climb this mountain peak?\u201d the\u00a0court enquired, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":9242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","story-category":[215,2252],"story-tag":[2336,2202,2333,2332,2334,2335],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Indian youth | Kaamya Karthikeyan | Global Indian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Indian youth Kaamya Karthikeyan made India proud\u00a0by\u00a0becoming the youngest in the world to summit Mt Aconcagua.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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