Summary:
However, it was not an easy task, both for Poorna as well as TSWREIS. Of these 40, 20 were sent to Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. Kumar said that at first, the institute rejected the proposal of training young children in high altitude mountaineering but only after much persuasion did the institute accept the proposal. Just a month before Poorna was to scale the Everest, tragedy struck in April 2014 as 16 people were killed in an avalanche on Everest. However, an undeterred Poorna went on to scale the highest mountain in the world on May 25, 2014..