INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, APRIL 19Neerja Birla, the wife of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire
chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, is all set to scale Lobuche peak in the Everest region this season.
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Neerja, founder
and chairperson of Aditya Birla Education Trust, along with a small group of climbers today reached Namche Bazaar on the way to the
6,000-metre Lobuche peak, said expedition organisers.Legendary climber and Chairman at Seven Summit Treks Mingma Sherpa will lead the
expedition while IFMGA guide Dawa Phinjo Lama Bhote and record-holding Indian climber Arjun Vajpai will accompany the Indian billionaire to
the summit of Lobuche.
Neerja and her friends landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport on a private jet on Thursday
and immediately took a helicopter flight to Lukla."Today, the team is in Namche bazaar," Mingma Sherpa said, adding that he was excited to
lead an expedition for the VVIP clients to Lobuche peak.Neerja's expedition to Lobuche also sends a positive message to the mountaineering
world and it also helps promote Nepal's adventure tourism, according to Sherpa.Being the wife of the 7th richest person in India, Neerja,
52, has a passion for promoting children's education and working for causes related to mental health
Being a philanthropist, mental health activist and educationist, she is also the recipient of Changemaker of the Year at the 2022 Woman
Achievers Awards in India."Life is more of an experience than a problem to be solved
With your can-do attitude, you are in control of your life, allowing you to experience and plunge into moments of complete awareness, a
trait that you can learn and instill," Neerja recently posted on X.
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