Bhawna Dehariya, a 28-year old mountaineer from village Tamia, Chhindawara, Madhya Pradesh who climbed the highest mountain peak Mount Everest on May 22 and became one among the first women of the State to complete the summit, is embarking on her rising mountaineering journey with her strong dedication and determination of living her dreams with open wings.
On her return from Australia, she talked at length to ‘The Pioneer’.
Bhawna’s father, Munna Lal Dehariya, is a Government high school teacher while mother Uma Devi is a homemaker. Bhawna is a sports enthusiast and is currently pursuing her master degree course in Physical Education from Bhopal. She has done BPEd, Bachelor in Physical Education. She has also been the president of the Student Union in her college.
While living her dream in reality, she believed that nothing is impossible in the world, all that one need is courage, determination and passion towards the goal. Nobody could stop her in living her journey further.
Recently, she made it to the Australia Continent highest peak Mt Kosciuszko, on the occasion of Holi, March 10, 2020 prior to this she unfurled the national tricolor flag on the occasion of Diwali, October 27, 2019 on Kilimanjaro, the highest peak of the Africa Continent.
Other than this, she has climbed Mount Aconcagua, South America reaching height of 6500 meters on December 31, 2019; Mount Manirang, Himachal Pradesh, covering 6593 meters summit in August 2018 and Mount DKD 2nd (5670 meters) Ghadwal summit in 2017.
Achieving these laurels was not a cake walk as it required a lot of courage and tough trainings, which were received by the mountaineer Bhawna. Being an athlete and a physical education student, she has secured glory in various games too. Bhawna has represented Madhya Pradesh by participating in various sports at the national level like Basketball, Cycle Polo, Softball, Artificial Sports climbing, etc. She has made the state proud by excelling in various adventurous sports. Besides this, she has also been an active cadet of NCC.
The passion of being a mountaineer was in her since childhood. To make her dream transformed into a reality, Bhawna pulled up her socks and did many mountaineering courses that mainly include the Advance and Methods of Instruction mountaineering courses, considered one of the best courses for mountaineering. She has completed this course from the renowned Government Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand where she secured Grade 'A' and in August 2018, Bhawna was selected by the Ministry of Sports and Youth Welfare, Government of India, Delhi for Mountaineering where she excelled in climbing 6593 meters high at the peak and made the country and state proud with her achieving laurels.
After four years of interminable hard work, on May 22, 2019, Bhawna raised the pride of the country and Madhya Pradesh in the world by climbing the world's highest peak Mount Everest also called Sagarmatha in Nepal, covering 8,848 meters.
Notably, Bhawna has also been bestowed with ‘Devi Award’ by the Chief Minister Kamal Nath at Indore. Besides, she has been felicitated by the Madhya Pradesh Cabinet for her stupendous achievements in 2020.
