Arjun Vajpai
Arjun Vajpai (born 9 June 1993) is an Indian mountaineer, who, in 2010, climbed Mount Everest at the age of 16 years, 11 months and 18 days, becoming the youngest Indian to climb Everest at that time He broke a record set by Krushnaa Patil of Maharashtra who climbed the summit 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. Vajpai also became the youngest to summit Manaslu on 4 October 2011. After 3 failed attempts on Mount Makalu, he became  the youngest Indian to summit it on 22 May 2016, during his fourth attempt. On 14 October 2015 Arjun Vajpai along with mountaineer Bhupesh Kumar scaled an unnamed peak high in Spiti valley, Himachal Pradesh and named it Mount Kalam in memory of late President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. Arjun Vajpai became the youngest Indian mountaineer to scale Mt.Cho Oyu accompanied by Pasang Norbu Sherpa and Lakpa Sherpa. Arjun Vajpai is the son of Col. Sanjeev Vajpai and Priya Vajpai from Noida. He studied at Ryan International School, Noida and has been fascinated by trekking and  mountaineering since his childhood. He underwent training at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi. In one of his expeditions in 2012, he was paralysed for 2 days, at an altitude of . The Swiss adventurer Olivier Racine came to his rescue giving him appropriate medicine. Arjun was scaling Mount Cho Oyu, in Tibet. Summits so far. 2010 : Mount Everest (8,849 m) 2011 : Manaslu (8,163 m)2011 : Lhotse (8,516 m)2016 : Cho Oyu (8,188 m)2016 : Makalu (8,485 m) 2018 : Kangchenjunga (8,586 m)