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Shikha Raju

Shikha Raju

Executive Officer at NSW Health's Health Education and Training Institute; first Fijian-born woman to summit Mount Everest (May 2026).

Jun 25, 2026

RowanHOST
10:42
Just give me through the journey, start to finish, give me the whole rundown.
10:46
Okay.
10:47
So I arrived in Kathmandu on the 6th of April, and the expedition officially started the next day, um, which is 7th of Ap- April.
10:57
In our group, there were only two of us climbing with Adventure Consultants, so we had a very small team, but we joined one of their Everest Base Camp trekking groups.
11:07
That turned out to be one of, one of the highlights, to be honest, because there were so many interesting people from around the world.
11:13
And as we walked through the E, Everest Base Camp track, you just mingled with so many different and just different perspective.
11:21
And as the days passed, we, and we gained altitude, people started getting sick, and, and some of them had to turn around and go back down.

8 MINS LATER

RowanHOST
19:28
How did it go? How did the body feel? What was going through your mind? Give us the rundown there.

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