Deeya Suzannah Bajaj | |
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 Deeya Suzannah Bajaj in July 2018 | |
| Born | 9 March 1994 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation(s) | Mountaineer, explorer, motivational speaker, adventure tourism |
| Parent(s) | Shirly Bajaj and Ajeet Bajaj |
| Relatives | Meghna Ann Bajaj (sister) |
Deeya Suzannah Bajaj (born 9 March 1994) is an Indian adventure sports athlete. [1] She completed the Seven Summits on 5 June 2022.
Bajaj is the daughter of Shirly Thomas Bajaj and Ajeet Bajaj (Indian adventurer and Padma Shri awardee). [2] She is a PADI certified rescue diver [3] and has completed an advance course in mountaineering from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering. [4]
At the age of 17, Bajaj participated in a 550 km long cross country skiing expedition, [5] where she skied across the Greenland Icecap to raise funds for a children's home. [6] She was the youngest in the world at the time to have completed the expedition. [7]
On 16 May 2018 Bajaj and her father became the first Indian father-daughter duo to climb Mount Everest. [8] [9] [10] [11] They are also the first parent-child team to have climbed Everest from the North Side (Tibet). The climb was undertaken to support the cause of the girl child in India. [12] The father-daughter team has climbed all of the Seven Summits including Mount Everest, Denali, Aconcagua, Vinson, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, Puncak Jaya and Mount Kosciuszko. [13] [14]