‘If He Can Do It at 66, Why Can’t I?’: Retired Delhi HC Judge Trekked to Everest Base Camp at 64

In November 2024, a little over a year after retiring from the Delhi High Court, Justice Poonam A Bamba boarded a flight to Nepal with surprisingly little idea of what she had signed up for. The plan, if it could even be called that, belonged largely to her husband. She had not spent years preparing for Everest Base Camp, researching trekking routes or training for high-altitude endurance. In fact, she says she was never even supposed to go. "My husband was going. I wasn't even going to go initially," she says, laughing at the memory. "I remember thinking, 'How did this idea get into this m...