Sherpa girl climbs Everest for 10th time, breaks personal file

A Nepali Sherpa broke her personal document as essentially the most successful female climber of Mount Everest by reaching the summit of the world’s highest peak Thursday

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press

12 May 2022, 11:26

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KATHMANDU, Nepal -- A Nepali Sherpa broke her personal document as essentially the most successful female climber of Mount Everest by reaching the summit of the world's highest peak Thursday.

Lakpa Sherpa and several other different climbers took advantage of favorable weather to reach the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit early in the morning, her brother and expedition organizer Mingma Gelu stated. He mentioned she was in good well being and was safely descending from the height.

Sherpa, 48, by no means obtained an opportunity to get a formal education as a result of she needed to start incomes a residing by carrying climbing gear and supplies for trekkers. Thursday's profitable ascent was her 10th — essentially the most times any woman has climbed Everest — and she has all the time said she needed to encourage all women in order that they can also obtain their dreams.

A local of Nepal, Sherpa lives within the U.S. with her three children in West Hartford, Connecticut.

One other Nepalese Sherpa information, Kami Rita, reached the summit for the twenty sixth time Saturday, breaking his own record for the most climbs of Everest. Rita led a group of Sherpa climbers who fixed ropes along the route in order that hundreds of different climbers and guides can make their way to the highest of the mountain later this month.

Hundreds of foreign climbers and an equal number of Sherpa guides are set to try climbs of Everest in Might, the month when weather situations within the Himalayan peaks are most favorable for climbing.