Hyderabad:Amgoth Tukaram just scaled another peak

Hyderabad: On Sunday, a young Telangana mountaineer and pride of India, Amgoth Tukaram, achieved another milestone by scaling the highest peak in Australia Mt Kosciuszko.

As is his practice to connect His achievement of scaling a new peak with a social cause, he choose to appeal for support to victims of Australian bush fire in collaboration with JET Helping Hands, a registered charity organisation of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji of Hyderabad. He appealed for support to the communities and the wildlife's affected by the catastrophic bushfires across Australia.

He climbed the peak on an auspicious Holi day and played Holi with fellow Australians heralding the message of joy, peace and harmony and his commitment to inspire youth with his mountaineering adventures JET Australia Foundation and JET Helping Hands organisations are part of the social and community welfare activities Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji who has financially sponsored arrangements for his Australia visit.

Speaking to the reporters after his last feat Amgoth Tukaram said he is immensely greatful to His Holiness Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji for his support and blessings are making him scale more heights. He also thanked JET Australia Foundation and JET Helping Hands teams. He is also attending the opening ceremony of Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji's JET Centre as a chief guest on 12 March at Melbourne.

Tukaram is the youngest mountaineer from India who has scaled five of seven toughest and highest peaks in the world. Amgoth Tukaram, son of Amgoth Ramdas, hails from Thakkalapally Thanda in Yacharam mandal in Ranga Reddy distcrict. He hails from a poor family. He has adventurous since childhood and groomed himself to take up challenges and succeed. After his nine adventureous mountaineering feats, he has become a youth sports icon of Telangana. "It is my dream and also goal to scale the highest mountain peaks of the world," says Tukaram.

He has been climbing peaks and big and small since last three years and has never looked back. Apart from trekking, every time he scaled new peak, he made it a point to leave a useful social message to the youth that success comes only through hard work, dedication and commitment to good social causes.