Telangana woman police officer scales Himalayan peak
G.R. Radhika has become the first Indian woman to conquer the 7,077 m high Kun mountain in the Zanskar range of the Himalayas. | Special Arrangement
As any mountaineer would do, G.R. Radhika, the rather frail looking police officer in Adilabad district of Telangana, also swears by Sir Edmund Hillary's belief, “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”. And her concurrence with the legendary mountaineer does matter as she has become the first Indian woman to conquer the 7,077 m high Kun mountain, the twin of Nun, located in the inhospitable Zanskar range of Himalayas in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Additional Superintendent of Police performed the feat on September 7 after a gruelling climb for over 10 days. The Indian Mountaineering Foundation subsequently declared her to be holding the record for an Indian woman.
“I am a bit of a risk taker,” reveals Ms. Radhika. “I was brought up more like a boy than a girl,” says the younger of the two children of a teacher couple as she tries to reason out her craving for adventure.
“I like to accept challenges which is why I quit my earlier job as an English language lecturer and took up policing,” she adds.
It was in 2012 that this mother of two belonging to the Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh — Anantapur, her birth place, and Kadapa, where she grew up — got to know about mountaineering as a sport. “One of my friends suggested I get trained in mountain climbing after I successfully completed the difficult pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and Mansarovar,” Ms. Radhika recalls.
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