Archana Sardana
Archana Sardana is India's first female BASE jumper.[1][2] She is a certified skydiver and was the first person to skydive with the Indian flag in the United States of America. [3] [4] Sardana has done 335 skydives and 45 BASE jumps across the globe. She is also the first Indian to BASE Jump offof the KL Tower, Malaysia with the Indian Flag.[4]
Sardana was born in Jammu and did her schooling in Srinagar.[5] She graduated with a diploma in interior design. Her interest in adventure sport came when she married Commander Rajiv Sardana (an electrical officer of the Indian Navy).[5] After discovering her love for adventure sports, Sardana completed 'Adventure and Advanced Mountaineering' courses from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling and Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.[4] She has a ‘C’ licence in skydiving from the United States Parachute Association having completed 335 skydives.[4] She is founder of the ‘Archana Sardana Scuba Diving Academy’.[4][3]
Padma Shri awardees Rachel Thomas, Shital Mahajan, the country's first female base jumper Archana Sardana,[6] Gujarat's First woman skydiver Shweta Parmar[7] are the only four licensed woman skydivers in the country.
Sardana also has 2 sons, Pranav and Ayush, who also share their mother's passion of adventure and hope to achieve great heights and deep depths in the world of adventure.Her husband's younger brother's younger son is Arpit Sardana
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- ^ "Meet India's First Woman Civilian BASE Jumper as well as First Woman Master Scuba Diver Trainer". The Better India. 20 July 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ a b "PADI Pro Chek". PADI.com. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e "Watch "Pushing the Limits | Archana Sardana | TEDxIIMKozhikode" Video at TEDxTalks". TEDxTalks. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ a b "Archana Sardana, the adrenaline junkie". The Times of India. 14 April 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
- ^ "Archana Sardana is a sky diver and BASE jumper". Red Bull. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ "28-year-old Shweta Parmar is now India's fourth licensed civilian woman skydiver". The Economic Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2022.