Pradeep Pattanayak

Ace Odia mountaineer Sidharth Routray on Sunday scaled the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest in the early hours on Sunday.  Reaching atop the peak, mountaineer Sidharth posed for photos with fellow mountaineer waving the National Flag, a photo of Lord Jagannath and Jagannath bana (flag).  

It took him a month and 27 days to reach the summit of the Everest which stands at a height of 8,849 metres above sea level.

Apart from being a mountaineer, Sidharth's other identity is that he is the son of senior Congress leader and Jatni MLA Suresh Routray. 
Meanwhile, Sidharth's father Sura celebrated his feat by distributing sweets today. 

“I congratulate him not because of my son but because of being an Odia for achieving such an extraordinary feat of scaling the highest peak in the world. He has brought glory to India as well as to Oidsha,” said Routray. 

Earlier, Sidharth has climbed Mt Dennali in North America, Mt Aconcagua in South America and Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa. He scaled the highest peak in South American continent, Mount Aconcagua in January this year. 

The braveheart has set his eyes on scaling all seven highest summits of seven continents and flying the Tricolour of India and flag of Puri Jagannath Temple on all of them.

Sidharth, along with his wife Anita and two daughters, resides in California United States where he works as the Head of Digital Marketing at a telecom company.
 

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