The youngest girl to scale Mount Elbrus at the age of 13 years 8 months in 2015 and the youngest TEDx Speaker.
Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru is an Indian mountaineer and motivational speaker. She is on her mission to climb the highest peaks of all seven continents known as the Seven Summits and also to reach the farthest point on the globe "The South Pole" and "The North Pole".
She is on her pursuit for the Grand Slam to become the youngest Girl in the World in her Phase I climbs.
Early life
Jaahnavi started her wilderness career at a very tender age of 10 months only, along with her parents Dr. S. Krishna Rao (Father) and Mrs. S. Saraswathi (Mother).[citation needed] By the age 3 years, she used to accompany her father in different Treks and Expeditions along with other children. By the age of 10 years, she had completed nearly 2 High Altitude Treks, 5 National Treks, and around 25 Local Treks.[citation needed]
She is also a Bharatanatyam dancer and also a painter.
Climbing career
Earlier, on 2 October 2014, Jaahnavi reached the summit of Kilimanjaro (5,895 m), the highest mountain in Africa.
She also became the youngest Indian to climb the highest peak of Australia - Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m). She also completed the Aussie 10 Challenge in 4 days, by climbing all the 10 highest peaks of Snowy mountains.
In February 2016, she created yet another unique record, by becoming the youngest Mount Everest Base Camp trek guide.[1] She accomplished this assignment by guiding a 10 years old girl and her mother after training them both for nearly 3 months with the help of her coach Nagapuri Ramesh and her Father Dr. S. Krishna Rao.
Her another accomplishment is North America's highest peak Denali in the month of July 2016 along which she also became the first Indian born Telugu girl to be invited to the White House to take part in National South Asian Symposium wherein she got an opportunity to interact with the high officials of the First Lady's office and the President.
In 2017 she had another feather to her list as she trained and guided the largest contingent of school students of 28 students aged from 7 years to 16 years to Everest Base Camp and became a global record.[2][3]
On the auspicious day of Janmashtami 2018, she made yet another unique record by summiting a virgin peak in Stok range of the Himalayas in the north-west region of India. She is awaiting documentation from the agency.[4]
Mission7Summit climbs
Peak Name
Country/Continent
Height (m)
Climbed/Attempted On
Climb Age
Remarks
Mount Kilimanjaro
Africa
5895
2 Oct 2014
12 Years 11 Months
Youngest Indian / Asian to Summit
Mount Elbrus
Europe
5642
31 Jul 2015
13 Years 8 Months
Youngest Indian / World's Youngest Girl to Summit
Mount Kosciusko
Australia
2228
11 Dec 2015
14 Years 1 Month
Youngest Indian to Summit
Mount Denali (McKinley)
North America
6194
10 July 2016
14 Years 8 Months
Youngest Indian to Accomplish
Mount Aconcagua
South America
6962
To attempt
-
-
Mount Vinson Massif
Antarctica
4897
To attempt
-
-
Mount Everest
Asia
8850
Attempted in 2019
18 years 5 months
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These are part of Jaahnavi's #Mission7Summit, through which she wants to climb the tallest peaks of every continent so as to raise funds to educate the underprivileged girls in India.[5]
Other notable climbs
Peak Name
Country/Continent
Height (m)
Climbed/Attempted On
Climb Age (years)
Remarks
Stok Kangri
India
6125
14 Aug 2014
12
Youngest Indian Girl
Mount Yala Peak
Nepal
5520
Feb 2015
13
Youngest Indian Girl
Everest Base Camp
Khumbu Valley/Nepal
5380
10 Mar 2016
14
Youngest Indian Guide
Island Peak (Imja Tse)
Khumbu Valley/Nepal
6189
11 Oct 2017
15
Youngest Indian Girl
Everest Base Camp
Khumbu Valley/Nepal
5380
18 Oct 2017
15
Guided the Largest contingent of students in the World from India
Mount Friendship peak
Manali
5289
30 Sep 2022
21
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Motivation
Apart from her regular mountaineering passion, Jaahnavi works for the development of girl child in India. She wants to raise funds from her climbing and educate underprivileged girls and train them with life skills. Her ultimate dream is to make each and every girl child of India tough[6] and educate them through her NGO under the name JanJay Foundation.
Jaahnavi is also a Motivational Speaker and gives the talk and inspires not only youth but also adults and takes part in different symposiums and discussions. She goes around villages and suburbs to educate girls and also gives talks in schools, colleges and different organisations including MNC's.
She also became the youngest speaker for the TEDxHyderabad 2016 and was also the special invitee speaker for TEDxBVRIT.
[7]
On 3 November 2017, she was the youngest speaker in TEDxDSCEWomen in Bangalore.
She gives commercials related to girl empowerment and sends messages for girl stereotypes for gender equality.
[8]
Her recent campaign #AmPrettyTough through one of the leading cosmetic company of India, Dabur Gulabari, has brought about a major change in the thought process of "Don't judge a book by its cover". In this campaign, Jaahnavi was shown as a girly girl.
[9] She takes parts in different activities to promote her Mission and spread the Word #AmPrettyTough breaking the gender equality.
She also organizes different outdoor activities along with trekking & hiking for kids & girls under her banner JanJay Adventures. Till now she has organized many activities to develop the confidence among the girls and move ahead.
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