20 November,2010 08:00 AM IST | | Agencies
Arjun Vajpai, who added a new chapter to mountaineering history six months ago by becoming the youngest Indian to summit Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is now set to join the ranks of his iconic mountaineer-authors by becoming an author himself.
The 16-year-old athlete and climber turns an author this month with his debut book narrating his awesome Everest expedition, On top of the world: My Everest adventure.
He started working on the book just after his ascent of the 8,848m peak in May and returning from Nepal.
Arjun's parents encouraged him to write the book so that he would always have memories of his ascent
According to the quietly confident 12th grader, he wrote the book because he wanted to tell the world his side of the Everest story, his experience, learning, and what he took back with him so that it could inspire his peersu00a0 "to have a seemingly impossible dream and daring to chase it!"
"Arjun started to record all his feelings and thoughts on a recorder as soon as he returned from Nepal," says his mother Priya Vajpai, The book talks about Arjun's brush with death, the mistakes he made and the emotional moment when he first saw a dead climber's body lying frozen on the way to the summit.
Since the Everest ascent, as he became a known name in India, Arjun has been receiving a lot of books on mountains, his mother says.
Arjun also said that he was receiving feelers to appear on reality shows.