Malavath Poorna(13)youngest female ever to scale Mt Everest Sunday May 25,2014

Malavath Poorna(13) not only became the youngest-ever female to perform the feat, but - along with her team member Sadhanapalli Anand - also proved that no goal is unattainable for those with a strong will. 

Malavath Purna scaled Mount Everest on Sunday May 25,2014 around 5.55am after a 52-day long expedition with her team

To immortalise their feat, she and 16-year-old Anand left a picture of B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India’s constitution, on the world’s highest peak. Anand belongs to the Dalit community.

What makes their feat extra significant is that both come from rural and economically backward families, and are students of state-run educational institutions in what will soon be the state of Telangana.


Malavath Poorna, whose parents earn their livelihood as farm labour, is from Tadwai in Nizamabad district.
She is a Class IX student at the Gurukul Patashala, a residential school under the social welfare department.

Anand, whose father works as a mechanic, is in Class XI and studies at a social welfare institute in Khammam,Andhra Pradesh,India

Last Year,the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society chose the duo from among 150 children from economically weak families who were identified and shortlisted for advanced training in adventure sports.

The two were among 20 sent to Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling for the training programme.