Sherpa woman climbs Everest for 10th time, breaks personal document

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

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA Associated Press

12 Could 2022, 11:26

• 2 min learn

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

Lakpa Sherpa and a number of other different climbers took benefit of favorable weather to achieve the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit early within the morning, her brother and expedition organizer Mingma Gelu said. He said she was in good health and was safely descending from the peak.

Sherpa, 48, never obtained a chance to get a formal education because she needed to begin earning a residing by carrying climbing gear and provides for trekkers. Thursday's profitable ascent was her tenth — the most instances any woman has climbed Everest — and she or he has all the time stated she needed to encourage all ladies in order that they can also obtain their desires.

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

One other Nepalese Sherpa guide, Kami Rita, reached the summit for the 26th time Saturday, breaking his personal file for essentially the most climbs of Everest. Rita led a gaggle of Sherpa climbers who fastened ropes alongside the route in order that tons of of different climbers and guides could make their option to the top 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 in the Himalayan peaks are most favorable for climbing.