<p>A 13-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh sunday became the youngest female climber to scale Mount Everest.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Malavath Purna along with 16-year-old Sadhanapalli Anand achieved the historic feat, according to information reaching social welfare department here. After a 52-day-long expedition, the duo pitched the national flag and the picture of B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, atop the world's highest peak.<br /><br />What made their feat extraordinary is the fact that they both come from rural and poor backgrounds and are students of educational institutions run by the government.<br /><br />While Purna comes from Tadwai village of Nizamabad district and is a class 9 student at Gurukul Pathshala, a residential school under the social welfare department, Anand is studying in class 11 at the social welfare college in Khammam district. Both the districts are in Telangana region.<br /><br />The girl's parents are agricultural labourers in a small village in Nizamabad district while Anand's father works as a mechanic.<br /><br />The Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Educational Society had last year selected them from among 150 children who were initially chosen for adventure sports.<br /><br />The duo were among a group of 20 sent to Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling for training. They were among nine students sent on an expedition to the Sino-Indian border.<br /><br />Purna and Anand, were sent to the Everest Expedition in April in view of their high degree of toughness and endurance, said an official.<br /><br />YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has congratulated the Telugu students for their historic feat. He said the students brought glory to the Telugu community.</p>
<p>A 13-year-old girl from Andhra Pradesh sunday became the youngest female climber to scale Mount Everest.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Malavath Purna along with 16-year-old Sadhanapalli Anand achieved the historic feat, according to information reaching social welfare department here. After a 52-day-long expedition, the duo pitched the national flag and the picture of B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, atop the world's highest peak.<br /><br />What made their feat extraordinary is the fact that they both come from rural and poor backgrounds and are students of educational institutions run by the government.<br /><br />While Purna comes from Tadwai village of Nizamabad district and is a class 9 student at Gurukul Pathshala, a residential school under the social welfare department, Anand is studying in class 11 at the social welfare college in Khammam district. Both the districts are in Telangana region.<br /><br />The girl's parents are agricultural labourers in a small village in Nizamabad district while Anand's father works as a mechanic.<br /><br />The Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Educational Society had last year selected them from among 150 children who were initially chosen for adventure sports.<br /><br />The duo were among a group of 20 sent to Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling for training. They were among nine students sent on an expedition to the Sino-Indian border.<br /><br />Purna and Anand, were sent to the Everest Expedition in April in view of their high degree of toughness and endurance, said an official.<br /><br />YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy has congratulated the Telugu students for their historic feat. He said the students brought glory to the Telugu community.</p>