MYAGDI, March 6: Qatar’s princess Asma Al-Thani has arrived in Myagdi in the course of her expedition to Annapurna I. The 8,091 meters tall peak is the world's tenth highest mountain and it lies within the Annapurna Rural Municipality-1 of Myagdi district.
MYAGDI, March 6: Qatar’s princess Asma Al-Thani has arrived in Myagdi in the course of her expedition to Annapurna I. The 8,091 meters tall peak is the world's tenth highest mountain and it lies within the Annapurna Rural Municipality-1 of Myagdi district.
MYAGDI, October 1: A Nepali woman mountaineer and 19 other team members have scaled world's eighth tallest peak, Mount Dhaulagiri, at 5:00 this morning. This is the first successful ascent to the Mt Dhaulagiri from a Nepali woman. Purnima Shrestha climbed the 8,167-metre peak located at Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality-4 in Myagdi district.
Shrestha and her team had left for Mt Dhaulagiri on September 18 from Marpha of Mustang district with the management of Seven Summit Trekking Company, Kathmandu. Trekking Company's proprietor Mingma Sherpa said, "This is the first ascent to Mt Dhaulagiri by a Nepali woman. Prior to this, there is no record of Nepali woman climbing to Mt Dhaulagiri before." Sherpa, however, said that it is yet to be confirmed whether Maya Sherpa and other members of the expedition team reached the top of Mt Dhaulagiri.
Purnima, who is a photo journalist by profession, had climbed Mt Annapurna-I on April 16. Likewise, she has already climbed world's tallest peak Mt Everest, Mt Manaslu and Mt Amadablam.
Journalist Purnima Shrestha, a member of the women expedition team to scale Mt Annapurna-I, and other climbers were honoured in Myagdi on Monday amidst a grand function.
They received honour from Federation of Nepali Journalists Myagdi chapter, Annapurna Rural Municipality and local people.
Speaking at the felicitation programme, Shrestha said that she scaled the Annapurna Summit due to her self-confidence.
Earlier, a total of 67 climbers had scaled the world's 10th highest peak Mt Annapurna-I on April 16, the first of this season's expedition.
Six Nepal women including journalist Purnima Shrestha and other climbers successfully reached the top of Mt Annapurna-I (8,091m) located at Annapurna Rural Municipality-4 in Myagdi district, guide of the expedition of team Pemba Sherpa said at a felicitation programme organised in Beni.
Six women including Shrestha, Dawa Yangjum Sherpa, Pasang Lhyamu Sherpa, Maya Sherpa, Sharmila Sengtang and Dabuti Sherpa reached the summit of the mountain in a single day becoming the first women to climb Mt Annapurna. Prior to this, no woman had reached the top of Mt Annapurna.
Guide Sherpa said that the women's team reached at the top of the mountain at 1:15 am on April 16.
