As the mountaineering community celebrates the 70th anniversary of the conquest of Mount Everest, a look at Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to reach the summit of the mountain. 5.

Bachendri Pal, an Indian mountaineer, was born on May 24, 1954. She was born in the Bhotiya family in Nakuri village of the Uttarkashi district in the state of Uttarakhand. She was one of five children to Hansa Devi and Kishan Singh Pal – a border tradesman who supplied groceries from India to Tibet.