10-year-old Mumbai girl climbs Everest base camp at a stunning altitude of 5,364 metres

Rhythm Mamania, 10-year-old girl from Mumbai became one of the youngest Indian mountaineers to climb a Mount Everest base camp. The class-5 student braved unforgiving climatic conditions to reach the South Base Camp that sits an altitude of 5,364 metres above sea level within 11 days of setting off on the expedition.

TN Viral Desk

Updated May 23, 2022, 08:37 IST

Rhythm Mamania, 10, pictured at the Everest Base Camp

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A 10-year-old girl from Mumbai climbed a Mount Everest base camp earlier this month.
Rhythm Mamania became one of the youngest Indian mountaineers to achieve the breathtaking feat.
Rhythm braved the unforgiving conditions to reach the South Base Camp at 5,364 metres above sea level.

Rhythm Mamania, 10-year-old girl from Mumbai climbed a Mount Everest base camp to become one of the youngest Indian mountaineers to achieve the breathtaking feat earlier this month, reported PTI.

Unforgiving conditions like steep terrain, hailstorm, snow and even temperatures as low as -10°C couldn’t deter the spirit of the unrelenting swashbuckler.

Setting off on April 25, Rhythm, an elementary school student of MET Rishikul Vidyalaya, suburban Bandra, reached the South Base Camp in Nepal that sits at an altitude of 5,364 metres above sea level on May 6.

The 11-day expedition came to a culmination when she reached the encampment at around 1 pm.

Urmi, Rhythm’s mother says that her love for scaling mountains goes back five years and she accomplished her first long trek at Dudhsagar when she clocked up 21 kilometres during the hike.

The mountaineer has summited quite a few peaks in the Sahyadri mountain range ever since, including Karnala, Lohagad and Mahuli forts.

However, nothing was quite like the base camp trek where Rhythm braved the brutal elements to walk for 8-9 hours.

“After reaching the base camp, other members of the group decided to take the helicopter on the way back, but Rhythm insisted that she would walk down. And hence four of us decided to descend it, Urmi said.

While there, the 10-year-old had a character-defining epiphany. “Skating ring or base camp summit, it's the determination that gets you a long way,” Rhythm told PTI.

“Along with skating, trekking has always been my passion, but this trek taught me how important it is to be a responsible trekker and also solve the mountain waste management problem,” she explained.

Rhythm was accompanied by her parents Urmi and Harsh to the Everest base camp on a tour organised by Kathmandu-based travel agency Satori Adventures.

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