{"id":173288,"date":"2025-06-14T13:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173288"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T08:14:32","slug":"geeta-samota-first-cisf-officer-to-summit-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/geeta-samota-first-cisf-officer-to-summit-mount-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeta Samota: First CISF Officer to Summit Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Geeta Samota, a CISF Sub-Inspector from Rajasthan, has created history by becoming the first officer from CISF to summit Mount Everest.<br>Trained by ITBP and ABVIMAS, her journey includes completing the Seven Summits challenge, setting national records, and inspiring women and youth with her achievements.<br>Recognized with top national awards, her victory has energized the CAPF community and strengthened India\u2019s presence in adventure sports and women\u2019s empowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Background and Journey<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong>\u00a0Hails from Chak village, Sikar district, Rajasthan.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Early Life: Talented hockey player during college; a career-ending injury led her to public service and mountaineering.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>CISF Career:<\/strong>\u00a0Joined CISF in 2011; discovered mountaineering during service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mountaineering Milestones<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Completed Basic Mountaineering Course (2015) at ITBP\u2019s Auli institute \u2013 only woman in her batch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Advanced course completed in 2017 \u2013 first CISF officer to do so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Became the first woman from CAPF to scale,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mount Satopanth (7,075 m) \u2013 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mount Lobuche (6,119 m) \u2013 Nepal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geeta Samota, a CISF Sub-Inspector from Rajasthan, has created history by becoming the first officer from CISF to summit Mount Everest.Trained by ITBP and ABVIMAS, her journey includes completing the Seven Summits challenge, setting national records, and inspiring women and youth with her achievements.Recognized with top national awards, her victory has energized the CAPF community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[4916],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-national-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173299,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173288\/revisions\/173299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173288"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}