Write about Bachhendri pal 100 sentence.
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Bachendri Pal (born 24 May 1954) is an Indian mountaineer, who in 1984[3][4] became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.[3]She was awarded the third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan by Government of India in 2019.[5]
Bachendri Pal
Padma Bhushan Bachendri Pal (cropped).jpg
Personal information
Main discipline
Mountaineer and
Promoter for Adventure
Born
24 May 1954 (age 66)
Nakuri, Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, India
Nationality
Indian
Career
Starting discipline
Instructor – National Adventure Foundation[1] Chief of Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (since 1984)
Notable ascents
First Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1984
Bachendri Pal was born to a Bhotiya family on 24 May 1954 in Nakuri village, in the Uttarkashi district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. She was one of five children to Hansa Devi, and Shri Kishan Singh Pal, – a border tradesman who supplied groceries from India to Tibet. She was born only five days before the first anniversary of the original ascension of Mount Everest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. She completed her M.A. and B.Ed. from D.A.V. Post Graduate College, Dehradun. She got her first taste of mountaineering thrill at the age of 12, along with her friends, scaled a 13,123 ft (3,999.9 m) high peak during a school picnic. On the invitation of her school principal, she was sent to college for higher studies and during her course at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, became the first girl in 1982 to climb Mt. Gangotri 121,889.77 ft (37,152 m) and Mt. Rudragaria 19,091 ft (5,818.9 m). In that time, she got employment as an instructor at the National Adventure Foundation (NAF), which had set up an adventure school for training women to learn mountaineering.[1]
Pal encountered stiff opposition from her family and relatives when she decided to opt for a career as a professional mountaineer rather than as a schoolteacher. She soon found success in her chosen field, however.
After summitting a number of smaller peaks, she was selected to join India's first mixed-gender team to attempt an expedition to Mount Everest in 1984.[