Character Sketch Of Deeya Bajaj
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What does 25 year old Deeya Suzannah Bajaj think of when she’s on top of the world’s highest mountains, armed with sheer grit, knee-deep in snow, knowing she is courting danger by her very presence there? “I remind myself that this is what I trained for, I am meant to be here, I am stronger than this moment. I think of the family that has supported me and the fact that I was treated like an equal, and I push like I have never done before, and I win,” she says.
And win, she did. Along with her father, the famed adventurer and Padma Shri awardee Ajeet Bajaj, Deeya peaked Mount Everest in May 2018, becoming the first father-daughter duo to ever accomplish the feat together. That wasn’t enough for her. The Gurgaon-based girl has been in the news continuously since February 2019 for all her climbs to six of The Seven Summits (the highest mountain in each continent).
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Such courage and perseverance begins young. Initiated into adventure sports when she was just six years old, Deeya and her sister’s summer holidays were always a series of outdoor sports and treks, scaling mountains and skiing across slopes of snow. After all, they were the children of two intrepid parents, Ajeet and Shirly, who founded Snow Leopard Adventures in Rishikesh in 1990, which today is considered one of India’s top adventure-travel companies.
When she was old enough, Deeya completed the Adventure course at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in Uttarkashi. Her first ‘real’ expedition was a 14-day long ski kayaking trip off the fjords of Greenland, living in extreme conditions in tents along with her father. At 14, she saw the Greenland icecap for the first time, a huge expanse of ice considered the second largest in the world. Her father heard her say she’d like to return, so three years later, he took her back.