Dream big, mountaineer couple tells Doon School students

Tribune News Service

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Dehradun, March 29

Mountain climbers Ankur Bahl (54), and his wife Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl (50) addressed boys of the Doon School today on their passion for scaling heights. Ankur is an alumnus of Doon School of the 1976 batch.

The duo has scaled five peaks of the world so far. During the talk, they motivated the students to dream big so as to scale heights. Also present on the occasion were headmaster Dr Peter McLaughlin, assistant headmaster PK Nair, director of public affairs Piyush Malaviya and Ankur Bahl’s parents. The session was presided over by secretary of the Doon School’s historical circle Naadir Singh.

They climbed summit of Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 ft), the highest peak in Africa, on December 31, 2011; Mount Elbrus (18,500 ft), the highest peak in Europe, on July 18, 2013, Mount Vinson (16,000 ft), the highest peak in Antarctica, on January 18, 2014; Mount McKinley (20,320 ft), the highest peak in North America on June 28, 2014. Ankur scaled Mount Aconcagua (22,347 ft), the highest peak in South America, on December 28, 2014 while Sangeeta, who had a marvellous climb post-knee operation and rehabilitation, climbed the peak on January 23, 2015.

Ankur plans to scale Mount Everest in April this year while Sangeeta plans to scale the Everest in April 2016. They also plan to scale Carstnez Pyramid in 2016 as their seventh summit.