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Mumbai: A 12-year-old Mumbai student, Kaamya Karthikeyan, has set a record of becoming the youngest in the world to summit Mt Aconcagua, the highest peak of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, South America, an official said here on Sunday. Kaamya, a Class VII student, achieved the feat atop the 6,962-metre-high mountain on February 1 where she unfurled the Tricolour.

No stranger to tall mountains, Kaamya had summited Ladakh’s 6,260-metre Mt Mentok Kangri II under extreme cold weather conditions on August 24, 2019. Her father is a Navy Commander and her mother a teacher. IANS