Mumbai: Krushnaa Patil the youngest Indian girl to climb Mount Everest at an age of 19 and the first Indian girl to summit Antarctica’s highest peak Mount Vinson Massif, is all set to scale Mt.Makalu the World’s fifth highest mountain on the borders of Nepal and China. Creating records has become a part of this woman’s life and now she plans to expand the horizons by making a perfect blend of high octane adventure sports and entertainment. She will not only be ‘highwaying’ from Pune to Katmandu but also make a film of the entire journey and back.
Krushnaa feels proud to announce that she is supported by CITY AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF MAHARASHTRA LIMITED (CIDCO, Govt.of Maharashtra) and to her encouragement she has been sponsored a SUV by Mahindra Adventure for this breath taking road trip.
Krushnaa along with Arjun Vajpai a much celebrated mountaineer from Delhi will be joining the road trip from Delhi itself, had tried scaling this mountain last spring 2013 also but had to unfortunately come back just 100meters short due to bad weather and shortage of ropes. These young Indians quest to put India among the elite group of International Mountaineers, to have climbed all the fourteen 8-thousand meter peaks in the world. Only 32 climbers in the world have climbed all these peaks & there is no Indian in this list.
So in this Expedition to Mt. Makalu with a twist, Krushnaa who has road tripped all the way from Pune along with Vibhu Pandey a passionate photographer and wild life explorer would be filming Arjun and Krushnaa’s journey to the summit of Makalu. This series of footage will show its viewers the real lifestyle of mountaineers from over 8 countries that will be joining Arjun in this expedition. A reality show at 19,000ft! We will be filming upto 12 hours a day, where people will be able to see the actual journey a mountaineer undergoes both physically and mentally on such mountains. No actors, real people, real politics, real deaths and real drama!
Source : Lokesh Shastri