Bhubaneswar: A seven-year-old boy with Down Syndrome from Indore is set to leave for Mount Everest base camp along with his father soon. Indore’s Aditya Tiwari is going on a trek to Mount Everest on April 13 with his adopted son Avnish.
He said, “I adopted Avnish in January 2016, when I was 26 and unmarried. My son has Down Syndrome and we are going to trek to the Mount Everest base camp, for which we have been preparing for the last six months. We will stay at every point for two to three days and will proceed further after looking at my son’s health.”
Till now no child with Down Syndrome has gone to Mount Everest base camp at such a young age. The maximum altitude reached by any such child is 2800 meters above the sea level after which it becomes difficult due to medical conditions. Tiwari added that the trek may take them 21 days, 9 more than the normal time needed.
Avnish is also an athlete in the Special Olympics, and he’s currently training while going to Army school in Mhow. “Earlier we have been to Gulmarg and Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, which are both at 2500 meters above the sea level”
