Q&A: The First Indian Woman up Everest

May 29, 2013 21:34

Wednesday marks 60 years since the first successful ascent of Everest and mountaineers in Nepal are commemorating the day Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's reached the highest point on Earth.

Just over three decades after they conquered the mountain, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to do so. It was 23 May, 1984 and she was 29 years old. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal's India Real Time, Ms. Pal talked about the struggles she's faced as a female explorer, the ego of male mountaineers, and her sense that climbing Everest is losing its charm.

Read the full interview here

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