Hyderabad: Virat Chandra Telukunta, a nine-year-old from Hyderabad, was given the Prime Minister's Bal Puraskar in Sports for climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.
7-year old Hyderabad Kid Scales Kilimanjaro Summit Mar 09, 2021, 17:01 IST
A seven-year-old boy from Hyderabad became one of the youngest people to scale the Kilimanjaro summit. Virat Chandra Telukunta of Hyderabad climbed the mountain peak and achieved this feat on March 6. He did training and after a lot of hard work, this became possible.
For over 2 and a half months, the boy did rigorous training. Virat along with his coach Bharath Thammineni reached the mountain summit on March 6. How this interest grew and how the passion for trekking grew in Virat also has a story to it.
Once when Virat had a video call with his cousins, the cousins were in mountain areas for a trip. They had gone to Rudugaira Mountains in Uttarakhand for a trekking trip. When Virat saw the place in the video call, he became fascinated. Even he wanted to try something like that.