On October 2, Purnima Shrestha and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa became the first Nepali women to reach the summit of Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest mountain in the world. The duo had tried to scale the mountain with different expedition agencies during the spring, but due to unfavourable weather and other circumstances, Shrestha and Sherpa had to cut short their summit bid.
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Some new mountaineering records that have lately been set have brought Nepal to the global spotlight even amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Few Nepali and foreign climbers have been able to create history on Mt. Dhaulagiri and Mt. Manaslu. Photojournalist Purnima Shrestha and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa have become the first Nepali women to climb the 8,167-metre Mt. Dhaulagiri. They reached the summit of this mountain in the early morning of October 1.
