Ravindra Kumar: Know more about the IAS who scaled Mt. Everest twice

IT was 4.20 am on May 23. Ravindra Kumar, a 2011 batch IAS officer, has done it again. The Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS has scaled the Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world, for the second time. Significantly, unlike his climb in 2013, this year, he reached the peak from the China (north) side, and not taking the usual Nepal (south) route. In 2013, when he scaled the peak, he was a Sikkim cadre IAS, but later, he changed his cadre to…

Know the Indian civil servants scaling Mt Everest; IPS Association quizzes who’s the first IPS to achieve it?

AS THIS article being written, IPS Association’s Twitter quiz on the first IPS officer to climb the Mount Everest is presently on. The quiz is: “We all know that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the 1st men to climb on the #MountEverest and Avtar Singh Cheema was the 1st #Indian to climb Mount Everest…#DoYouknow who was the 1st IPS officer to climb #MountEverest?”. The options provided are,  GR Radhika, Suhail Sharma, Aparna Kumar and Atul Karwal. And the voting is presently on. As the season of reaching the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak by climbers across the world is in the news, this…

IAS officer Ravindra Kumar's book "Many Everests" to hit the stand next month; what the book is all about?

COME new year, IAS officer Ravindra Kumar’s book, “Many Everests: An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dreams Into Reality” will hit the stand. The author — the first and the only IAS officer to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest so far — shares the tricks and their effectiveness in handling different situations of life, and how to come out of bad situations and multiple failures, according to a…

More about Aparna Kumar, first woman IPS to scale Mt Everest; home minister calls it a “proud moment"

2002 BATCH UP cadre IPS officer Ms Aparna Kumar has become India’s first woman police officer to scale the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. The DIG-ranked officer who had earlier conquered the highest peak in the Antarctica too, on Saturday morning scaled the Everest and hoisted the Indian Tricolour. “A proud moment for our police forces as Ms Aparna Kumar becomes the first female IPS officer to scale Mount Everest”, commented Union home minister Rajnath Singh in social media site Twitter. In January this year, Aparna Kumar became the country's first civil servant to...

Everest expedition team members of IAS, IPS safe, confirms Indian Mountaineering Foundation

OVER 30 hours after a devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 in Richter scale hit the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal, a good news finally emerged confirming that the All India Services Everest expedition team comprising two IAS,  two IPS and one Indian Forest Service officer were safe, and they reached Gorakshep on Sunday from the base camp. Many fellow officers were worried as the television channels were showing dramatic images from the Mount Everest avalanche along with a report saying that...

Know Your Babu: 2 IAS, 2 IPS and 1 IFoS begin a 70-day-long expedition to Mt Everest

All India Services expedition team with PM

AFTER 2011 batch Sikkim cadre IAS Ravindra Kumar’s success in scaling the Mt Everest in 2013, as many as five civil servants including two IAS (Kumar included), two IPS and one Indian Forest Service (IFoS) officers have embarked on the first ever All India Services Expedition to Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world. The team, led by Kumar, will soon begin a 70-day-long expedition from Nepal’s Lukla, which is the highest airport in the world. Know more about these five adventurous babus:

After IAS Ravindra Kumar, 5 more officers gear up to scale Mt Everest next year

ONLY a couple of months after Sikkim cadre IAS officer of 2011 batch, Ravindra Kumar had created history by scaling the Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world, five IAS officers-- all belonging to Rajasthan are now dreaming big. According to reports, all those five officers have got berths in Indo-Nepal Mount Everest Civil Service expedition scheduled for next year. Here are more about each of those officers:

Wow! Ravindra Kumar becomes the first IAS officer to scale Mt Everest

A YOUNG Sikkim cadre IAS officer, Ravindra Kumar has created history by scaling the Mt Everest, the highest peak in the world. The 2011 batch officer, currently an assistant collector and executive magistrate of East district of Gangtok, achieved this rare feat on May 19, scripting a history by becoming the first IAS officer to conquer Mt Everest. According to local media reports…