Ashish Mane

Ashish Mane

Personal information
Born	(1990-08-14) 14 August 1990 (age 34) Maharashtra, India

Ashish Mane (born 14 August 1990) is an Indian mountaineer. He has scaled Mount Everest (2012), ^{[1] [2]} Lhotse (2013), ^{[3] [4] [5]} Makalu (2014), ^{[6] [7]} Manaslu (2017), ^{[8] [9] [10]} and Kanchenjunga (2019). ^{[11] [12]} Ashish is the only climber from Maharashtra as of now, to ascend five of the fourteen eight-thousander peaks over 8,000 meters (26,250ft) above sea level. In 2016, he attempted to climb Dhaulagiri, but due to technical reasons he had to quit the expedition. ^{[13] [8]}

Background

Ashish hails from Satara, Maharashtra. He is an alumnus of Raje Shivraya Pratishthan college in Kothrud, Pune. ^[14] He holds a master's degree in Computer Science. He did his basic mountaineering course from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) at Uttarkashi. He has done multiple treks in Sahyadri ghats.

His fascination towards mountains and trekking in Konkan region, inspired him to climb in Himalayas. ^[15]

Expeditions

Year	Peak (Height in meters)
2012	Mount Everest (8,848)
2013	Lhotse (8,516)
2014	Makalu (8,481)
2017	Manaslu (8,163)
2019	Kanchenjunga (8,586)

Awards

Ashish has received following awards

• Shiv Chhatrapati State Sports award for year 2014-15 ^[16]

See also

• Indian summiters of Mount Everest - Year wise
• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
• List of Mount Everest records of India
• List of Mount Everest records

References

1. "12 mountaineers from Pune scaled Mount Everest - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
2. "एव्हरेस्टवीर आशिष माने सातार्‍यात". marathibhaskar (in Marathi). 8 June 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
3. Lokapally, Vijay (31 May 2013). "Scaling new peaks". The Hindu. ISSN   0971-751X . Retrieved 26 October 2017.
4. "Jubilant Giripremi team returns after Everest summit". The Indian Express. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
5. "Sakal Times - City student scales Mount Lhotse". cms.myvishwa.com. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
6. "Pune lad scales Mount Makalu braving bad weather - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
7. "Giri Premi conquers Makalu | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
8. "Pune's Akshay Patke and Ashish Mane summits Mount Manaslu". The Times of India. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
9. "Pune Giripremi's Travails: To the death zone and back, six successful times". hindustantimes.com/. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
10. "साताऱ्यातील आशिष मानेकडून जगातील आठवं सर्वोच्च शिखर सर". ABP Majha. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
11. "10 mountaineers from Maharashtra summit Mt Kangchenjunga". The Times of India. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 14 January 2024.
12. "10 mountaineers from India summit Mt. Kanchenjunga". www.aninews.in. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
13. "Pune-based mountaineering group Giripremi scales Mt. Cho Oyu and Mt. Dhaulagiri". The Indian Express. 24 May 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
14. "Pune lad scales Mount Makalu braving bad weather - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
15. "THE CITY OF CLIMBERS - The Times Of India - Pune, 2017-12-10" . Retrieved 12 December 2017.
16. "Shiv Chhatrapati awards - Hindustan Times 13th Feb 2018". www.hindustantimes.com. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

Further reading

• Ashish Mane ( May, 2013) "After Everest, I wanted to scale technical peaks like Lhotse"
• Ashish Mane (Dec, 2017) "My greatest achievement was scaling Mt Makalu, being first Indian civilian to do so"