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[edit] Achievements

[edit] Conquered Mt. Everest 4 times

Prabin Kalita, Arunachal mom scales Mt Everest for fourth time , May 17, 2017: The Times of India

HIGHLIGHTS

Anshu Jamsenpa, 37, a mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh conquered Mt Everest for the fourth time.

She stamped her conquest by hoisting the national flag, handed over to her by the Dalai Lama in April, atop the world's highest summit.

Anshu Jamsenpa, 37, a mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh and a mother of two, conquered Mt Everest for the fourth time on Tuesday. She stamped her conquest by hoisting the national flag, handed over to her by the Dalai Lama in April, atop the world's highest summit.

Jamsenpa will attempt the second climb in the next 10 days, an achievement that will make her the only woman in the world to complete the double ascent feat twice. "She reached the summit at 9am IST. Anshu's double ascent expedition was flagged off by His Holiness Dalai Lama on April 2 from Guwahati. If she is successful with her double ascent, Anshu will add to her record of having climbed Everest five times," her PR manager Nanda Kirati Dewan said.

In 2011, Anshu became the world's first woman to do a double ascent within 10 days of her first climb. She had taken a shot at the record of two double ascents in 2015 but the climb was called off due to the Nepal earthquake. Her third conquest of the world's highest peak was on May 18, 2013.

[edit] As in 2021

Hindol Basu, January 27, 2021: The Times of India

People dream of being on top of the world. Mother of two Anshu Jamsenpa has done it not once, not twice, but five times.

Mountaineer Jamsenpa, now 41 years old, hails from Arunachal Pradesh and has scaled the world’s tallest mountain – Mt. Everest – on five different occasions. Incredible as it may sound, in 2011, she conquered the Himalayan giant twice in a season – first on May 12 and then again on May 21. That earned her the record of being the first woman in the world to climb the Everest twice in a season. Soon after, Jamsenpa ascended the Everest for the third time in 2013.

In 2017, she achieved something that many top mountaineers of the world (men and women both) only can dream about. Jamsenpa got the better of the 8,848-metre tall colossus twice in a space of five days – first on May 16 and then on May 21. This is the fastest double climb of the Everest ever by a woman.

On May 16, along with 17 other climbers, Jamsenpa climbed up to the top of the Everest and unfurled the Indian national flag at 9.15 am. She started her second climb with Nepali climber Furi Sherpa on May 19, and continued climbing almost without any pause till 10 pm. The next morning she began climbing and took a brief break prior to the summit hike, finally reaching the zenith on May 21 at 7.45 am. It took her 118 hours and 30 minutes to finish the second climb.

Recognising her feats, the Union government awarded her the Padma Shri – the country’s fourth-highest civilian award – on the eve of this year’s Republic Day. Jamsenpa’s tryst with mountaineering began in 2009. “I was into a lot of rock climbing and adventure sports. The people at the sports association (Arunachal Mountaineering and Adventure Sports Association) headed by my husband had observed this and encouraged me to take up mountaineering,” she says. “Once I started, there was no looking back. It was during the advanced training course that I realized that I loved being up in the mountains and somewhere along the way the thought of summiting Mt. Everest came up.”

So what was it like being on top of the world for the first time? “For the first time, the feeling was overwhelming. I felt closer to God. I had goosebumps all over my body. The view up there, that picture is something one only sees in dreams,” says Jamsenpa, who was born in Dirang, a remote mountain town in Arunachal Pradesh. The daughter of an Indo-Tibetan Border Police officer father and a nurse, Jamsenpa was never in doubt of completing the ‘double ascent’. “I guess it was more like once you are up there, you always have the urge to go back,” she says.