<p>The 45-year-old Agarwal, who has several expeditions to her credit, is scheduled to begin her conquest on March 25 and is expected to return on June 1.<br /><br />"Having stood up to the various tests, a mountaineer looks to the greatest challenge of them all -- Mount Everest," said Agarwal, whose initiation into adventure sport came by chance and was subsequently motivated by Bachendri Pal, the first woman to scale Mount Everest.<br /><br />Sponsored by Tata group of companies, Agarwal would undergo various training sessions at Kathmandu's ASTREK climbing wall before setting her foot on the world's highest mountain range.<br /><br />She would undergo map reading training on March 31 while between April 7 and 11, Agarwal will prepare herself for glacier walking, traverse, ascent and descent on ice with the help of an axe and crampons and walking on fixed rope.<br /><br />The 45-year-old will then trek to Khumjung (12,398 ft) to get acclimatise to the conditions before beginning her final campaign on April 14.<br /><br />Agarwal was part of the first Indian women's Thar Desert Expedition team in 2007 and has also climbed Mount Killimanjaro (19300 ft) in Tanzania -- the highest free standing (Volcanic) mountain in the world -- under the leadership of Pal in 2008.<br /><br />Her 40-day long camel safari during the Thar Desert Expedition along the international border from Bhuj in Gujarat -- Rann of Kutch -- Thar in Rajasthan -- upto Wagah Border in Punjab, has been recognised as a "National record" and also found a place in the Limca Book.<br /><br />"I had participated with my elder daughter and we became the first mother-daughter team to have achieved this feat across Thar," she recollected.<br /><br />"I would like to be the first from my state of Jharkhand to attempt Mount Everest in the summer of 2011," added a confident Agarwal said.</p>
<p>The 45-year-old Agarwal, who has several expeditions to her credit, is scheduled to begin her conquest on March 25 and is expected to return on June 1.<br /><br />"Having stood up to the various tests, a mountaineer looks to the greatest challenge of them all -- Mount Everest," said Agarwal, whose initiation into adventure sport came by chance and was subsequently motivated by Bachendri Pal, the first woman to scale Mount Everest.<br /><br />Sponsored by Tata group of companies, Agarwal would undergo various training sessions at Kathmandu's ASTREK climbing wall before setting her foot on the world's highest mountain range.<br /><br />She would undergo map reading training on March 31 while between April 7 and 11, Agarwal will prepare herself for glacier walking, traverse, ascent and descent on ice with the help of an axe and crampons and walking on fixed rope.<br /><br />The 45-year-old will then trek to Khumjung (12,398 ft) to get acclimatise to the conditions before beginning her final campaign on April 14.<br /><br />Agarwal was part of the first Indian women's Thar Desert Expedition team in 2007 and has also climbed Mount Killimanjaro (19300 ft) in Tanzania -- the highest free standing (Volcanic) mountain in the world -- under the leadership of Pal in 2008.<br /><br />Her 40-day long camel safari during the Thar Desert Expedition along the international border from Bhuj in Gujarat -- Rann of Kutch -- Thar in Rajasthan -- upto Wagah Border in Punjab, has been recognised as a "National record" and also found a place in the Limca Book.<br /><br />"I had participated with my elder daughter and we became the first mother-daughter team to have achieved this feat across Thar," she recollected.<br /><br />"I would like to be the first from my state of Jharkhand to attempt Mount Everest in the summer of 2011," added a confident Agarwal said.</p>