Bachendri Pal, raised in a modest family, discovered her love for the mountains during her childhood in the Himalayan region. Despite societal expectations for women at the time, she nurtured her ...

Bachendri Pal made ... allowed to go to school, Pal became a mountaineer. Hailing from a small village named Nakuri in Uttrakhand, Pal was born to a working-class family. She has seven siblings.