Nepal’s Lhaka Sherpa breaks her own female record by scaling Mount Everest for 10th time
- Also on Thursday, seven members of an ‘All Black Expedition’ climbed Everest marking the first time that all members of an expedition were Black
- On Sunday, a fellow Nepali, Kami Rita Sherpa, broke the men’s record of 26 climbs, beating his own previous record set last year
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.
“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.
A Nepali tourism official, Bhishma Kumar Bhattarai, confirmed she reached the summit.
One of 11 children, Lhakpa was born in the eastern district of Sankhuwasabha, home to the world’s fifth highest mountain, Makalu.
Also on Thursday, seven members of an “All Black Expedition” comprising climbers from the United States and Kenya climbed Mount Everest, said Jeevan Ghimire of the Shangrila-Nepal Trek hiking company.