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Malavath Poorna, a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Andhra Pradesh, has become the youngest female to scale Mount Everest, news reports said yesterday.
Poorna, who is to turn 14 on June 10, is the daughter of farm labourers based in a village in Nizamabad district, according to a website on the Everest expedition.
Poorna studies in a government-run residential school for economically deprived children.
She was among 20 children chosen by the Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society, the organisation that runs the schools, to be part of an expedition to the world’s highest peak.
Along with Poorna, another student Anand Kumar, 18, scaled Everest, NDTV news channel reported.
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