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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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