Competing towards Mom Nature is probably probably the most difficult activity that skilled athletes face. Whether or not it climbing hills or mountain biking or a triathlon, athletes face the hardest of obstacles and even surmount them with homosexual abandon. Indian skilled mountaineer Arjun Vajpai, educated on the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering in Uttarkashi, reveals how he has managed to scale among the highest mountains on the planet in a particular episode of the ‘Match India Champions’ podcast sequence which was launched on Saturday. The complete episode may be seen right here.
The ‘Match India Champions’ podcast sequence is geared toward spreading the great phrases on wellness via conversations with athletes and well being influencers who’re appearing as catalysts for change. The ten-episode sequence is in partnership with GOQii, a significant stakeholder within the health sector that proactively manages well being via its digital and multimedia expertise. The episodes are streamed dwell on digital platforms.
Arjun Vajpai is third on the checklist of movie star athletes who’ve taken half within the podcast hosted by Shrimati Ekta Vishnoi, the Deputy Director Basic of Sports activities Authority of India and the director of the Match India Mission. The episodes began with para archer Sheetal Devi. World and Tokyo 2020 javelin champion Neeraj Chopra was second on the checklist.
Thirty-year-old Arjun is the world’s youngest to scale six peaks over 8000 metres in 2018. It got here as no shock for a person who summited Mount Everest as a 16-year-old in 2010! The Delhi man now desires to change into the primary Indian man to climb all 14 peaks above 8000 m the world over.
“It’s my dream to climb all 14 mountains above 8000 meters and hold India’s flag flying excessive. This dream and the tunnel-vision or one-sighted purpose retains me going regardless of the tough circumstances mountaineering makes you undergo,” stated Vajpai.
“As mountaineers, we’re not competing towards people. We’re competing towards Mom Nature. Right here, you can be examined towards nature’s requirements. So, we have to focus each on bodily and psychological health. There have been deaths of our fellow climbers, amputations executed however we hold going. It is our one-sighted purpose to be on the prime,” Vajpai added.
The Match India ambassador has been a pioneer in his subject having scaled among the most troublesome Himalayan peaks like Lhotse, Makalu, Kanchenjunga, Manaslu and Annapurna.
Praising the Match India initiative, the skilled mountaineer stated, “The imaginative and prescient of Match India is one thing I can relate with as effectively. Health has been an integral a part of my life and I’ve spent quite a lot of time in staying match every day. I attempt to encourage youthful technology by being exterior and train children the identical. I’m very glad to be part of the motion and thank Hon’ble Prime Minister of India for launching this initiative.”
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