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2002 BATCH UP cadre IPS offi cer Ms Aparna Kumar , currently serving as DIG ( Telecom ) in Lucknow , has become India ’ s fi rst woman police offi cer to scale the world ’ s highest peak , Mount Everest . 41-year-old Aparna did BA and LLB before getting selected to Indian Police Service . Her major postings in Uttar Pradesh include Additional SP in Allahabad , SP in districts such as Chitrakoot , Kabir Nagar and Hamirpur
SHE LOVES TO SCALE CHALLENGES
After scaling Mount Vinson Massif , the highest peak in Antartica , earlier this year , IPS officer Aparna Kumar has become the first lady IPS officer to scale Mount Everest .
Aparna , a 2002 batch IPS officer , scaled Mount Everest in her third attempt . In her previous two attempts , an avalanche in 2014 and
an earthquake in 2015 prevented her from completing her quest .
With Mount Everest under her belt , Aparna has also become the first civil servant to scale the highest peaks of six out of seven continents .
“ She unfurled the national tricolour and flag of UP Police at the summit . A proud moment for the nation and UP Police ,” Aparna ’ s husband and also the District Magistrate of Allahabad , Sanjay Kumar said in an interview given to Times of India .
Aparna enrolled herself in a month long basic mountaineering course at the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports , Manali , in October 2013 .
In 2014 , she scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania , the highest peak on the African continent . This feat was followed by climbing atop Carstensz Pyramid peak in the West Papuan province of Indonesia , the highest in the Australia and Oceania region .
Aparna , who now has her eyes set on Mount McKinley in Alaska , was conferred the Rani Laxmi Bai Puraskar by UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in 2015 . �
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