Satyendra Singh won the 'Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award' in August 2020 in the 'Water Adventure' category. Satyendra Singh Lohiya became the first Asian Paraswimmer to cross the 42km Catalina Channel in the US in just 11.34 hours. Tenzing Norgay award is the highest national adventure sports award (first awarded-1994), which is named after Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two individuals to reach the summit of Mount Everest alongwith Edmund Hillary in 1953.