Lhakpa Sherpa, popularly known as ‘Everest Queen’ along with a group of Nepali climbers will attempt to climb K2 next month, according to Pemba Sherpa, Managing Director at 8K Expeditions.
Lhakpa Sherpa, 48, has become the first woman to climb Mount Everest 10 times. The Sankhuwasabha native who currently lives in Connecticut, USA, Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest at around 6.30 am on Thursday, confirmed Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd., the company that managed her expedition.
A 48-year-old Nepali woman scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time on Thursday, breaking her own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by a female climber, her hiking company said.
Lhakpa Sherpa last climbed the 8,848.86-metre (29,031.69-foot) mountain in 2018. A fellow Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, holds the men's record of 26 climbs.
"Lhakpa has broken her own record and become the first woman to achieve 10 summits," her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa, an official of her Seven Summit Club hiking agency, told Reuters.
Lhakpa Sherpa is set to break her own record and climb Mount Everest for the 10th time.
Sherpa, who already holds the record for the highest number of successful Everest ascents by a woman, arrived in Kathmandu from the United States of America on Friday and was feted by the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) on Monday. The Association wished her the best for her attempt at scaling the world’s tallest mountain a historic 10th time and handed her an NMA flag to hoist at the top.
A 48-year-old Nepali woman climber is all set to begin her climbing activities in Mt Everest region early next month aiming to scale the world’s highest peak for the tenth time this season.
At 9:30am today, 46-yearold Zhang Hong became the first blind Chinese mountaineer to have climbed Mt Everest on his first attempt with the assistance of his mountain guide Qiang Zi and three sherpas — Lhakpa Sherpa, Dawa Wongchu Sherpa, and Samden Bhote.
