No way down
THE WEEK India|July 10, 2022
A 26-year-old Indian woman joins the league of faster-and-higher conquerors of the death-zone mountains
SNEHA BHURA
No way down

You would expect an ambitious mountaineer eyeing the coveted 8,000-metre-plus peaks to train hard in high altitudes. Endurance and strength training theories will tell you to find a hill and go for the hardest sprints on a bike. Yet, Baljeet Kaur, a chirpy 26-year-old mountaineer from Himachal Pradesh, was in Gurugram in the lead up to her 41-day expedition to Mt Annapurna and Mt Everest.

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