Nirupama Pandey

Nirupama Pandey
Born	Nirupama Pandey Siwan, Bihar, India
Status	Married
Ethnicity	Bihari
Education	Ness Wadia College
Occupation	Mountaineer
Spouse(s)	Sqn. Ldr. Prakash Jha
Children	None

Sqn. Ldr. Nirupama Pandey is an Indian mountaineer. She is first person from Bihar to have scaled Mount Everest. The officer has till now gone on several mountaineering expeditions, including Mt Stock Kangri (6121m) in Leh, Mount Golab Kangri (6100m),in Leh Mt Kamet (7,757m), Mt Abhigamin (7357m) in Garhwal region and Mt Saser Kangri I (7672m) in Ladakh region. Nirupama, who belongs to Jamo Jalalpur village in Siwan, has taken Bihar into the league of 14 states from where people have climbed Mount Everest so far. Currently, she is posted at Rajokri Air Force Station in New Delhi under the Western Air Force command.

Early life

Nirupama Pandey originally hails from village Jamo Jalalpur in Siwan district. She was born to Shri Rajendra Pandey and Srimati Uma Pandey in a bihari family in Siwan a small district in the state Bihar. She did her schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya in Pune and graduation and MBA from Ness Wadia College, Pune. She started her mountaineering career in 2007 by undergoing rigorous training at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering located at Uttarkashi. She joined Indian Air Force as flying officer in 2003.

Family

Nirupama Pandey is married to Squadron leader Prakash Jha, who hails from Benipatti in Madhubani, Bihar. Nirupama got married to Prakash in August 2009.

Awards

In the month of August, 2011 Bihar CM Sri Nitish kumar felicitated Squadron leader Nirupama Pandey in Patna for unfurling tricolour at the Mount Everest.Squadron Leader Nirupama pandey was awarded with Ati Vishisth Khel Samman by the Govt of Bihar.

See also

• List of Indian women athletes
• List of Mount Everest records of India

External links

• http://indianairforce.nic.in/