SHIMLA: A 24-year old Ishani Jamwal from Kullu has climbed peak boldly where no other woman has gone before: She scaled the 8188 M high Mount Cho Oyu, the 6th highest mountain in the world.
She has become first woman in the world to accomplish this feat of scaling the peak from the south side, the most difficult side from Kathmandu for the first time.
She did it on October 20 and unfurled Indian Tiranga on the Peak.
Accompanied by 14 Sherpas, Ishani was a member of six-member team of Pioneer group. They included Piyali Basak(35), Varga, Csaba (40) from Hungary, Koterh Tseng(30) Taiwan, Hu Tao (36), China, Qaisra Saeed(51) from the USA.
Ishani hails from Pahnala Kullu. She has got training in mountaineering from Atal Bihari Vajpayee institute of mountaineering and Allied Sports, Manali.
Tibetans worship the Chow Oyu as Turquoise Goddess in Khumbu section of the Mahalangur Himalaya that fall in Nepal and Tibet-occupied China.
The mountaineers had conquered the peak in 1954.