To add further, a haryanvi girl Mamta Sauda , known to me has conquered the highest mountain peak Mountain Everest.
Here is the news report:-
Coming from a poor Dalit family, it was an arduous journey for 27-year-old Mamta Sodha who fulfilled her dream of scaling the world's highest peak Mt Everest today.
"We are very proud of Mamta's feat. She comes from a poor Dalit family. Her mother is a widow and Mamta, who teaches at a college in Kurukshetra, has to support a family of three that also includes her brother and a sister," Haryana's Financial Commissioner Dhanpat Singh said.
Singh said that Mamta, who hails from Haryana's Kaithal district, 111 kms from here, was a member of National Adventure Club and had on earlier scaled other peaks.
"Finding sponsors for the expedition was an arduous task. She got Rs three lakh from Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and another Rs five lakh from Congress MP Navin Jindal. I arranged Rs two lakh for her equipment from ONGC," he said.
He said that Deputy Commissioners of Gurgaon, Panipat and Kaithal had also chipped in, enabling Mamta to realise her dream of attempting to scale the world's highest peak.
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