Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru


Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru is an Indian mountaineer and motivational speaker. She is on her mission to climb the highest peaks of all seven continents known as the Seven Summits and also to reach the farthest point on the globe "The South Pole" and "The North Pole".
She is on her pursuit for the Grand Slam to become the youngest Girl in the World in her Phase I climbs.
She became the youngest girl in the world to scale Mt. Elbrus, Europe's tallest peak. She created this record on 31 July 2015 at the age of 13 years and 8 months.
She is also one of the youngest girl to have reached the summit of Stok Kangri on 14 August 2014 at 12 years of age.

Early life

Jaahnavi started her wilderness career at a very tender age of 10 months only, along with her parents Dr. S. Krishna Rao and Mrs. S. Saraswathi. By the age 3 years, she used to accompany her father in different Treks and Expeditions along with other children. By the age of 10 years, she had completed nearly 2 High Altitude Treks, 5 National Treks, and around 25 Local Treks.
She is also a Bharatanatyam dancer and also a painter.

Climbing career

Earlier, on 2 October 2014, Jaahnavi has become the Indian to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.
She also became the youngest Indian to climb the highest peak of Australia - Mt. Kosciuszko. She also created a new record by completing the Aussie 10 Challenge in 4 days, by climbing all the 10 highest peaks of Snowy mountains.
In February 2016, she created yet another unique record, by becoming the Youngest Mt.Everest Base Camp Guide. She accomplished this tough assignment by guiding a 10 years old girl and her Mother after training them both for nearly 3 months with the help of her Personal Fitness Coach Mr. Nagapuri Ramesh and her Mentor and Guide, her Father Dr. S. Krishna Rao.
Her another accomplishments from her Mission7Summit is North America's highest peak Mt. Denali in the month of July '2016 along which she also became the First Indian Born Telugu Girl to be Invited to The White House to take part in National South Asian Symposium wherein she got an opportunity to interact with the High officials of the First Lady's office and The President.
In 2017 she had another feather to her Success list as she trained and guided the largest contingent of school students of 28 students aged from 7 years to 16 years to Everest Base Camp and became a Global Records
On the auspicious day of Janmashtami 2018, she made yet another unique record by summiting a Virgin Peak in Stok Ranges of The Himalayas in the North-west region of India. She is Awaiting the documentation from the agency.

Mission7Summit climbs

Peak NameCountry/ContinentHeight Climbed/Attempted OnClimb AgeRemarks
Mt. KilimanjaroAfrica58952 Oct 201412 Years 11 MonthsYoungest Indian / Asian to Summit
Mt. ElbrusEurope564231 Jul 201513 Years 8 MonthsYoungest Indian / World's Youngest Girl to Summit
Mt. KosciuskoAustralia222811 Dec 201514 Years 1 MonthYoungest Indian to Summit
Mt. Denali North America619410 July 201614 Years 8 MonthsYoungest Indian to Accomplish
Mt. AconcaguaSouth America6962To attempt--
Mt. Vinson MassifAntarctica4897To attempt--
Mt. EverestAsia8850To attempt--

These are part of Jaahnavi's #Mission7Summit, through which she wants to climb the tallest peaks of every continent so as to raise funds to educate the underprivileged girls in India.

Other notable climbs

Peak NameCountry/ContinentHeight Climbed/Attempted OnClimb Age Remarks
Stok KangriIndia612514 Aug 201412Youngest Indian Girl
Mt. Yala PeakNepal5520Feb 201513Youngest Indian Girl
Everest Base CampKhumbu Valley/Nepal538010 Mar 201614Youngest Indian Guide
Island Peak Khumbu Valley/Nepal618911 Oct 201715Youngest Indian Girl
Everest Base CampKhumbu Valley/Nepal538018 Oct 201715Guided the Largest contingent of students in the World from India

Motivation

Apart from her regular Mountaineering passion, Jaahnavi works for the development of Girl Child in India. She wants to raise funds from her climbing and educate underprivileged girls and train them with Life Skills. Her ultimate dream is to make each and every girl child of India Tough and educate them through her NGO under the name JanJay Foundation.
Jaahnavi is also a Motivational Speaker and gives the talk and inspires not only Youth but also Adults and takes part in different Symposiums and Discussions. She goes around villages and suburbs to educate girls and also gives talks in schools, colleges and different organisations including MNC's.
She also became the Youngest speaker for the TEDxHyderabad 2016 and was also the Special Invitee Speaker for TEDxBVRIT.
On 3 November '2017, she was the Youngest Speaker in TEDxDSCEWomen in Bangalore.
She gives commercials related to girl empowerment and sends messages for Girl Stereotypes for Gender equality.
Her recent campaign #AmPrettyTough through one of the leading cosmetic company of India, Dabur Gulabari, has brought about a major change in the thought process of "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover". In this campaign, Jaahnavi was shown as a Girly Girl.
She takes parts in different activities to promote her Mission and spread the Word #AmPrettyTough breaking the gender equality.
She also organizes different outdoor activities along with Trekking & Hiking for Kids & Girls under her banner JanJay Adventures, who is the Technical partner of all her Expeditions also. Till now she has organized many activities to develop the confidence among the girls and move ahead.

Speaking assignments