CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A noted mountaineer from Uttarakhand, Harshwanti Bisht, together with two others, became the first woman to reach the summit of Nanda Devi, which, at 7, 816 metres, is the highest mountain entirely within Indian territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Harshvanti Bisht is an India’s’Leading woman mountaineer, has been actively associated with mountaineering and Himalayan Tourism Research work for the past two decades. She has Climabed Gangotri (6672 M), Nanda Devi (7817 M), and Baby Shivling (5660 M) in Garhwal Himalaya.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lagarde became the first woman to be elected as the head of the IMF. Carstens would have been the first non-European.