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Mastan Babu Malli (3 September 1974 – 24 March 2015) was an Indian mountaineer. He is best known for his 2006 world record creating feat of climbing each continent's highest peak (popularly called seven summits) in the shortest span of time at that point - a total of 172 days with the first climb on January 19, 2006 and the seventh on July 10, 2006. This feat made him the fastest seven summiteer in the world at that time, the first Indian and South Asian to climb all seven summits, the first Indian to climb Vinson Massif and the first Indian to climb Carstensz Pyramid. While his record for climbing the seven summits has since been improved upon, his record of climbing each summit on a different day of the week still stands today. Mastan Babu died on March 24, 2015 in Andes mountains after getting caught in bad weather post a successful attempt of Tres Cruces Sur Summit. The continent-spanning journey that began with a schoolboy drawing inspiration from a Sainik School senior who had died while nearing the top of Mt. Everest thus ended high on another demanding peak in the Andes. In between, he settled down for brief periods to earn degrees and a living. ==Early Life and Education== Born on 3 September 1974 at Gandhi JanaSangam village of Sangam mandal in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh to a Hindu family of Malli Mastanayya and Subbamma, Mastan Babu was their fifth child. He was amongst the first in his farming family to receive formal education.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Indian on top of the world )〕 He is said to have been named after Mastan Swamy, a saint. He studied at Sainik School, Korukonda, Vijayanagaram distt., Andhra pradesh state during 1985-1992. After completing his B. E. in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur in 1996, Malli went on to earn a M. Tech in Electronics from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1998, distinguishing himself in various sports and adventure activities at both institutes. Following a three year stint as a software engineer,with SATYAM Computers, Malli was selected for the two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Management(PGDM) program at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta , graduating in 2004.〔https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mastan-babu-malli/9/652/637 Retrieved from ‘Malli’s LinkedIn profile.〕 An early inspiration for his turn towards mountaineering is said to have been the statue in his school of Lt. M.Uday Bhaskar Rao, a former student who was among those who died during the Indian Army’s Everest expedition of 1985.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro )〕 In IIM Calcutta, he was given Dr. B.C. Roy award, for his outstanding contributions towards enriching campus life. Malli’s untiring efforts to increase the fitness levels of fellow-students and to institutionalize adventure activities led to the foundation of IIMC’s Adventure Club in 2003. It continues to hold many events, on and off campus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Adventure Club )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Malli Mastan Babu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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