ESA felicitates world record holder Everest summiteers
By TBN Reporter ———
Kathmandu: Everest Summiteers Association felicitated veteran tourism expert and Chairman of Asian Trekking Ang Tshering Sherpa, Everest summiteers Kame Sherpa and Ms. Nima Chemji Sherpa at a function in Kathmandu on September 13.
Former President of Nepal Mountaineering Association Ang Tshering Sherpa was felicitated for his contribution of more than four decades in promoting mountain tourism and mountaineering of Nepal. He is also Hon. Consulate General of Belgium in Nepal.
Kame Sherpa was honored for his world record of climbing Everest summit three times in nine days in May 2012. Forty eight years old Kame Sherpa has successfully climbed Everest for 14 times so far.He summitted Mt. Everest on May 19, 23 and 27, becoming the first to do so in a single season.
Likewise, Ms. Nima Chemji Sherpa was felicitated for climbing Everest at the age of 16. She claimed that she is the youngest woman ever to scale Mount Everest, achieving the feat at the tender age of 16.Nima reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 19 by being part of an expedition team accompanied by her father.
Minister for Culture,Tourism and Civil Aviation Posta Bahadur Bogati , Secretary at MoCTCA Yagna Prasad Gautam and former Minister for Tourism Yankila Sherpa honoured Everest summiteers and climbers involved in ‘ Saving Everest waste management project ‘. Different associations were also honored for their contribution in Everest Cleaning Campaign.
Minister Bogati, addressing the ‘ felicitation program of world record holder mountaineers, persons and organizations’ ,urged the climbers to contribute in making the Himalayas clean for future generation and assured the stakeholders to open other Himalayas in the western part of Nepal.
Mountain tourism expert Ang Tshering highlighted on the necessity of implementing long-term programmes to save the Himalayas, a destination of mountaineers all over the world.
‘Himalayas are the water source for 1.5 billion people in the region. The Himalayas have to face problems of climate change and global warming. If Imja-tse Lake and other glaciers will burst, it will bring tsunami in the region including Gangetic planes’, he opined.
On the occasion, General Secretary of the Everest Summiteers Association Diwas Pokharel urged the Nepal government to provide Everest Summiteers with identity cards . He said that ESA is planning to make souvenirs of 10 tons of garbage collected from Everest region in association with Da Mind Tree under ‘Mt. Everest -8848 ART Project.’
President of the association Wongchu Sherpa said that the ESA team collected 8.1 tons of garbage from South Col of Mt. Everest to Base camp in 2011 and urged the government to cooperate in honouring renowned mountaineers of Nepal .’ The ESA is committed to launch Save Himalayas and waste management project in future as well’, he added.
