Nepali woman’s 10th Everest climb breaks her own record

Lhakpa Sherpa, 44, a Nepali mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest 9 occasions, receives Tenzing Ð Hillary Mountaineering Award through the operate to mark the Worldwide Everest day in Kathmandu, Nepal Might 29, 2018. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Picture

KATHMANDU, Might 12 (Reuters) – A 48-year-old Nepali lady scaled Mount Everest for the tenth time on Thursday, breaking her personal file for probably the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by a feminine climber, her climbing firm stated.

Lhakpa Sherpa final climbed the 8,848.86-metre (29,031.69-foot) mountain in 2018. A fellow Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, holds the boys’s file of 26 climbs.

“Lhakpa has damaged her personal file and change into the primary lady to attain 10 summits,” her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa, an official of her Seven Summit Membership climbing company, informed Reuters.

A Nepali tourism official, Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai, confirmed that she had reached the summit.

One among 11 youngsters, Lhakpa was born within the jap district of Sankhuwasabha, house to the world’s fifth highest mountain, Makalu.

Additionally on Thursday, seven members of an “All Black Expedition” comprising climbers from america and Kenya climbed Mount Everest, stated Jeevan Ghimire of the Shangrila-Nepal Trek climbing firm.

Fewer than 10 black mountaineers in complete had reached the height earlier than, however that is the primary time that every one members of an expedition have been Black, climbing officers stated.

Everest has been climbed 10,657 occasions because it was first scaled in 1953 from the Nepali and Tibetan sides. Many have climbed it greater than as soon as, and 311 folks have died.

Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Enhancing by Clarence Fernandez

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