Background
He was born to Late Kantaru Jena in Sitapur, Paralakhemundi of Gajapati district in Odisha.
He was born to Late Kantaru Jena in Sitapur, Paralakhemundi of Gajapati district in Odisha.
He reached the peak of Mount Everest on 18 May 2011 as the first male from the eastern state of Orissa. Two other Indians in his team were Amit Kumar from Haryana and Jackie Jack from Rajasthan. The team was headed by Anshu Jamsenpa, 32.
My target is to scale the Everest twice in one season,” he said to media persons after his successful Everest mission.
Currently he resides in Bhubaneshwar and serves for Bhubaneswar Development Authority. He is always inclined towards adventure sports since his youth and moves slowly but steadily towards his goal despite of poor financial conditions.
He has participated in many more adventure sports. 1996 - Mountain. Bandarpunch Peak (21673 ft)
1998 & 2005 - Mountain.
Stok Kangri Peak (two occasions)
1998 - Mountain.
Ladakhi Peak (5662 m)
1998 - Mountain. Shetidhar Peak (5293 m)
1999 - Mountain. Mamostong Kangri (24,400 ft) Peak
1999 - Mountain.
Khardung Louisiana and Mountain.
Stok Kangri Peak
2000 - Mountain. Gulap Kangri Peak
2007 - Mountain. Friendship Peak (5340 m)
2002 - Mountain.
Saser Kangri Peak (7672 m) organised by Y.A.M.A, Chandigarh.
18 May 2011 - World"s Highest Peak, Mount Everest (8848 m)
Other Adventure Expeditions to his cr are:
2005 - Motor Cycle Expedition (Chandigarh to Khardungla - World"s highest Motorable Pass via Kargil, Srinagar and back)
1999 – 7 km. Adventure Canal Swimming Competition.
1999 – 500 km Adventure Cycle Expedition from Bhubaneswar to Chandigarh and back. 1995 & 1996 – 160 km adventure Coastal Trekking from Konark, Odisha to Gopalpur, Odisha organised by Department of Sports & Youth Services.
He participates in National Adventure Festival at Chandigarh since 1995.
He was Guest Instructor for National Adventure Festival from 2002 to 2009. Ganesh was honoured with ‘Adamaya Sahas Puruskar’ by Haryana government in 2013. He was to begin his Mount Kanchenjunga Mission from April 1, 2014 which was expected to end on May 31.
To a great embarrassment to his supporters and the whole state he was denied leave by his employer and he had to abort the mission.
On July 22, 2015, Ganesh Jena started his next expedition to scale 5642 meter height Mount Elbrus in Moscow, Russia. A six-member team from India would headed by Ganesh to climb the Elbrus.
Former Sports and Youth Services director Doctor Bimalendu Mohanty and former assistant director Ashok Mohanty flag off Jena. This is thes very first time when any climber from India is going to do traverse climbing of the Elbrus.
Ganesh and his team will start their journey on July 26 from the base camp and expects to reach the pick on September 2.