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Shipra Mazumdar

Shipra Mazumdar is a Major in the Indian Army, and a member of the Indian Army women mountaineering team. She is a Bengali. She pursued Engineering at Army Institute of Technology, Pune. She did her Basic and Advance Mountaineering Courses from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi.

Mountaineering expedition

At 9:30 a.m. on 2 June 2005, she reached the summit of Mount Everest with three other members of the team. They climbed from Tibet, using the North Col route.

Another mountaineering team from the Indian Air Force had reached the summit on 30 May. One member of that team, Squadron Leader S.S. Chaithanya, disappeared in a blizzard during the descent.

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