Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award
Civilian award for achievements in the field of adventure
Anshu Jamsenpa receiving the award for the year 2017 for land adventure
Awarded forHighest adventure honour in India
Sponsored byGovernment of India
Reward(s)₹5 lakh (US$6,300)
First awarded1994
Last awarded2021
Highlights
Total awarded146
Precedence
EquivalentArjuna Award

The Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award, formerly known as National Adventure Awards, is the highest adventure sports honour of Republic of India.[1] The award is named after Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer and one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest along with Edmund Hillary in 1953.[2] It is awarded annually by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. The recipients are honoured for their "outstanding achievement in the field of adventure activities on land, sea and air" over the previous three years. The lifetime achievement is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated excellence in and devoted themselves in the promotion of adventure sports. As of 2021, the award comprises "a bronze statuette of Tenzing Norgay along with a cash prize of ₹15 lakh (US$19,000)".[a][8]

Instituted in 1993–1994, the first awards were given for the year 1994. The stature of this award is considered to be equivalent to Arjuna Award conferred in the field of sport.[3] Since the year 2004, this award, along with all the other six National Sports Awards, are conferred in the same presidential ceremony at the Presidential Palace, usually on 29 August each year.[5][9] The nominations for a given year are accepted until 20 June. Typically, one award in each of the four categories—Land adventure, Water (Sea) adventure, Air adventure, and Lifetime achievement—are given. The number may increase in a particular year for appropriate reasons and after approval. A five-member committee evaluates the achievements of a candidate in a particular category of adventure, taking into consideration their last three years of performance for the first three categories. The committee later submits its recommendations to the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports for further approval.[8]

As of 2021, there have been 146 recipients. In the first year 1994, 22 awards were given, of which 19 were bestowed on the Indian members of the 1993 Indo-Nepalese Women's Everest Expedition.[3] In 2017, ten awards were given, of which six were given to the members of Navika Sagar Parikrama, an all-woman sailing team for the circumnavigation of the globe.[10] Chandraprabha Aitwal is the only double recipient of the award, in 1994 for land adventure and in 2009 for lifetime achievement.[3][11]

List of recipients

Award recipients by year
Year Number of recipients
1994–1999
45
2000–2009
38
2010–2019
56
2020–2021
7
Award recipients by gender[b]
Gender Number of recipients
Male
93
Female
47
Award recipients by category[b]
Category Number of recipients
Land Adventure
67
Water Adventure
27
Air Adventure
18
Lifetime Achievement
28
Award recipients by discipline[b]
Category Number of recipients
Mountaineering
87
Open water swimming
15
Sailing
12
Skydiving
17
Others[c]
7
Key
   # Indicates a posthumous honour
List of award recipients, showing the year, gender, category and discipline[b]
Year Recipient Gender Category Discipline Refs.
1994 Chandraprabha Aitwal Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Kunga Bhatia Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Gurmayum Anita Devi Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Radha Devi Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Dicky Dolma Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Baldev Kanwar Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Suman Kutiyal Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Savita Martolia Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Rita G Marwah Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Bimla Negi Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Sarla Negi Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Nima Norbu Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Bachendri Pal Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Harshha Panwar Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Rita Patel Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 K. Saraswati Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Deepu Sharma Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 Rajeev Sharma Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1994 A. K. Singh Male Water Adventure Sailing [3]
1994 Hukum Singh Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [3]
1994 Rachel Thomas Female Air Adventure Skydiving [3]
1994 Santosh Yadav Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [3]
1995 C N Janaki Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [12]
1995 H C Kohli Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [12]
1995 Chhavi Madan Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [12]
1995 Baba Maninder Paul Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [12]
1995 Sanjay Thapar Male Air Adventure Skydiving [12]
1995 Ang Tsering Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [12]
1995 M P Yadav Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [12]
1996 B. K. Das Male Air Adventure Microlight aviation [13][14]
1996 Krishan Kumar Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [13][15]
1996 Gunjan Parulkar Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [13][16]
1996 Rupali Repale Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [13][17]
1996 Gyan Singh# Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [13]
1996 Lalneihsenga Male Land Adventure [13]
1997 Kokila Sudha Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [18][19]
1998 Amulya Sen Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [18][20]
1999 H. S. Chauhan Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [18][21]
1999 Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [22][23]
1999 Ratnamani Roy [22]
1999 S. D. Sharma Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [22][24][25]
2000 Ratan Singh Chauhan Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [22][26]
2000 Chalti Debarma [22]
2000 Kamal Singh Oberh Male Air Adventure Skydiving [22][27]
2000 Kushang Sherpa Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [22][28]
2001 Kulwant Singh Dhami Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [18][29]
2001 Barkha Kishore Kedia Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [18][30][31]
2001 Dorjee Lhatoo Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [22][19][32]
2001 Vijaypat Singhania Male Lifetime Achievement Microlight aviation [33]
2001 Ramesh Chandra Tripathi Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [18][34]
2002 Bula Choudhury Female Lifetime Achievement Open water swimming [5][35]
2002 Brian Dermot Kharpran Daly Male Land Adventure Caving [5][36]
2002 Relu Ram Thakur Male Water Adventure White water rafting [5][37]
2003 Harish Kapadia Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [38][39]
2003 Mayur Mehta Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [38][40]
2003 Amar Prakash Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [38][41]
2004 Mohan Singh Gunjyal Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [38][42]
2004 Nadre Sherpa Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [38][43]
2004 Jayashankar Male Air Adventure Skydiving [38][44]
2005 Mukul Asthana Male Water Adventure Sailing [45]
2005 Chhering Norbu Bodh Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [45]
2005 Nawang Gombu Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [45]
2005 Shital Mahajan Female Air Adventure Skydiving [45]
2006 Tapas Chowdhury Male Water Adventure Sailing [46][47]
2006 Palden Giachho Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [46][48]
2006 Motuku Indra Kanth Reddy Male Air Adventure Skydiving [46][49]
2006 Gurdial Singh Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [46][50]
2007 Neel Chand Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [51][52]
2007 Mohan Singh Kohli Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [51][50]
2007 T. K. Rath Male Air Adventure Skydiving [51][52]
2007 Mohinder Singh Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [51][53]
2008 H. P. S. Ahluwalia Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [54][50]
2008 Bachinapally Shekhar Babu Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [54][55]
2008 Chaitanya Datla Female Water Adventure Sailing [54][56]
2008 Ramakant Male Air Adventure Hang gliding [54][57]
2009 Chandraprabha Aitwal Female Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [11][58]
2009 HC Kamlesh Kumar Bounthiyal Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [11][59]
2009 Jai Kishan Male Air Adventure Skydiving [11][60]
2009 Sufyan Sheikh Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [11][61]
2010 Reena Kaushal Dharmshaktu Female Land Adventure Cross-country skiing [62][63]
2010 Dilip Donde Male Water Adventure Sailing [62][64]
2010 Balwant Sandhu# Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [62][65]
2010 Mamta Sodha Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [62][66]
2011 Rajendra Singh Jalal Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [67][68]
2011 Bhakti Sharma Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [67][69]
2011 Mandip Singh Soin Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [67][70]
2011 Anand Swarup Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [67][71]
2012 Ranveer Jamwal Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [72]
2012 Hari Ram Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [72]
2012 Basant Singh Roy Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [72]
2012 Paramjeet Singh Siddhu Male Air Adventure Hang gliding [72]
2012 Prem Singh Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [72]
2012 Abhilash Tomy Male Water Adventure Sailing [72][73][74]
2013 Amit Chowdhury Male Lifetime Achievement Skydiving [75][76]
2013 Passang Tenzing Sherpa Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [75][77]
2013 Jagat Singh Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [75][78]
2013 Surender Singh Male Air Adventure Skydiving [75][76]
2014 Satish Chander Sharma Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [79][19]
2014 Jot Singh Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [79][80]
2014 Paramvir Singh Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [79][46][81]
2014 Arunima Sinha Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [79][82]
2014 Satyendra Verma Male Air Adventure Skydiving [79][76]
2015 Debasish Biswas Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [83][84]
2015 Ritu Kishor Kedia Female Water Adventure Open water swimming [83][85]
2015 Nungshi Malik Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [83][86]
2015 Tashi Malik Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [83][86]
2015 B. Rajkumar Male Air Adventure Skydiving [83][76]
2015 Harbhajan Singh Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [83][87]
2016 Ashok Abbey Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [88][89]
2016 Premlata Agrawal Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [88][90]
2016 More Rohan Dattatrey Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [88][91]
2016 Ved Prakash Sharma Male Lifetime Achievement Skydiving [88][76]
2017 Aishwarya Boddapati Female Water Adventure Sailing [10]
2017 Shougrakpam Vijaya Devi Female Water Adventure Sailing [10]
2017 Payal Gupta Female Water Adventure Sailing [10]
2017 Anshu Jamsenpa Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [10][92]
2017 Pratibha Jamwal Female Water Adventure Sailing [10]
2017 Vartika Joshi Female Water Adventure Sailing [10]
2017 Ravi Kumar# Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [10]
2017 Patarlapalli Swathi Female Water Adventure Sailing [10]
2017 Udit Thapar Male Air Adventure Skydiving [10]
2017 Sonam Wangyal Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [10]
2018 Dipankar Ghosh# Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [93][94]
2018 Rameshwer Jangra Male Air Adventure Skydiving [93][76]
2018 Manikandan K. Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [93][95]
2018 Prabhat Raju Koli Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [93][96]
2018 Aparna Kumar Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [93][97]
2018 Wangchuk Sherpa Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [93][98]
2019 Magan Bissa# Male Lifetime Achievement Mountaineering [9][99]
2019 Anita Devi Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [9][100]
2019 Keval Hiren Kakka Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [9][101]
2019 Satendra Singh Lohiya Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [9][102]
2019 Sarfraz Singh Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [9][103]
2019 Taka Tamut Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [9][104]
2019 Gajanand Yadava Male Air Adventure Skydiving [9][105]
2020 Sheetal Female Land Adventure Mountaineering
2020 Priyanka Mohite Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [106]
2020 Amit Bisht Male Land Adventure Mountaineering [107][108]
2020 Servesh Dhadwal Male Air Adventure Skydiving [109]
2021 Naina Dhakad Female Land Adventure Mountaineering [7]
2021 Shubham Dhananjay Vanmali Male Water Adventure Open water swimming [7]
2021 Bhawani Singh Samyal Male Life Time Achievement [7]

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ The cash prize started with ₹50,000 (US$630) in 1994,[3] was revised to ₹1.5 lakh (US$1,900) in 1999,[4] to ₹3 lakh (US$3,800) in 2002,[5]to ₹5 lakh (US$6,300) in 2008,[6] and to ₹15 lakh (US$19,000) in 2021[7]
  2. ^ a b c d The names and complete data of four award recipients is missing, two recipients from 1997 and two from 1998. The partial data for three recipients is missing, Lalneihsenga (1996) – discipline missing, Ratnamani Roy (1999) – gender, category and discipline missing and Chalti Debarma (2000) – gender, category and discipline missing. Hence the total in the graphs may not match the total number of recipients.
  3. ^ Includes caving (1 recipient), cross-country skiing (1 recipient), hang gliding (2 recipients), microlight aviation (2 recipients) and white water rafting (1 recipient)

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