Making molehills out of mountains

Updated On: 15 July, 2023 07:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar

Thane man defies age, wins over depression to summit Mt Everest in feat of tribute and triumph

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Sharad Kulkarni at the press conference on Friday. Pic/Sameer Markande

Thane man Sharad Kulkarni decided his life as he knew it, running an advertising agency, needed a new turn at around 50 years of age. Kulkarni and his wife Anjali decided to pursue their passion for mountaineering. They wanted to climb seven peaks of the world’s seven continents.

Traffic jam

“We can call it a craze, much more than a passion, it is difficult to explain what drove us,” said Kulkarni at a press conference at the Press Club in Azad Maidan (SoBo) late Friday morning. The Kulkarnis trained and started climbing different mountains. Kulkarni and his wife scaled Mt. Kosciusko in Australia. They scaled Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro. In May 2019 the couple were climbing the blue riband of mountaineering, the Everest. It was then that tragedy struck. Caught in a ‘traffic jam’ on Everest, a struggling and suffering Anjali Kulkarni passed away at Hillary Step on the mountain, “one of the reasons was that she could not reach oxygen cylinders in time because of the jam”, said Kulkarni.

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