01. Manita Pradhan (Mountaineering)


Miss Manita Pradhan, recipient of Sikkim Ratna, the highest civilian award of the Sikkim Government successfully summited Mt. Everest (2021), the highest mountain in the world and Kilimanjaro (2022), the highest mountain in Africa.

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