More than 500 climbers summit Mt. Everest this season
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Kathmandu: More than 500 climbers from different countries , including 215 foreigners,have successfully scaled Mount Everest in this season. Altogether 53 climbers scaled Mt. Everest on Thursday ( May 23 ) , 92 on Tuesday ( May 21) ,135 on Sunday and 94 on Monday.
According to the officials of Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation, 35 foreigners accompanied by 29 Nepali Sherpas scaled Mt. Everest from South Col. of Nepal side on Saturday.
Raha Moharrak became the first Saudi Arabian woman to scale the world’s highest peak on Saturday. The 25-year-old Moharrak reached the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) summit with a group of foreign mountaineers and Nepali guides.
Two 21-year-old Indian sisters created history by becoming the first twins ever to conquer the summit of Mount Everest together. Tashi and Nancy Malik from Dehra Dun achieved this feat by successfully reaching the world’s highest mountain peak at 8,848 meters on Tuesday.
Mountaineer Samina Baig has become the first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain with a peak at 8,848 metres. Baig completed the climb to the summit with her brother Mirza Ali, who becomes the third and youngest Pakistani male to scale the mountain.
Arunima Sinha, a former national level volleyball player of India , who had lost her right leg after thrown off a moving train by some hoodlums, created history on Tuesday by becoming the first Indian amputee to conquer Mount Everest. 25-year-old Sinha reached the summit of the highest peak as a member of the Eco Everest Expedition from the Tata Group.
Similarly, Asian Trekking’s International Everest North side (Tibet) Expedition 2013 members David Liano , Sirdar Mingma Sherpa , John Tsang and Pasang Dawa Sherpa summited Mt.Everest this morning according to Asian Trekking.
David Liano is now the first person to complete the double summit on Mt. Everest in one climbing season. He is also•Leader of Eco Everest Diamond Jubilee Celebration (Nepal side) Expedition 2013 Team 1 .He summited Mt. Everest from Nepal side on 11 May with his companion High Altitude Sherpa Samden Bhote.
Similarly ,the first team of the Mt. Everest Expedition and Sanitation Campaign of army personnel of Nepal and India successfully climbed the Mt. Everest this morning.
According to the Nepal Army Directorate of Public Relations Major Samir Basnet, Captain Kishor Adhikari, Battalian Managing Sergeant Gyanendra Hudda and Corporal Dhirendra Shahi of the Nepal Army and Major RS Jamwal, Senior Warrant Officer Mingmar Gurung, Army Havildars- Sudhir Singh and Chatar Singh and Lance Nayak Sukbir of the Indian Army climbed the world’s highest peak.
Teams of the Campaign have been collecting garbage from the Mt. Everest base camp and above it for the past one month.
Hundreds of climbers are in different camps of Everest waiting favorable weather to reach the summit of the world’s highest peak in the coming days .
Last week, Russian mountain climber Alexei Bolotov died while attempting to climb Mount Everest., the Russian Mountaineering Federation said.A rope Bolotov was using snapped after it rubbed against a sharp rock, sending the climber into a 300-metre fall , the Russian Mountaineering Federation said.
Bolotov, together with Kazakh climber Denis Urubko, was attempting to summit Everest by its southwest face hitherto unconquered.
Mount Everest, known to local people as Sagarmatha or Chomolungma, rises to 8,848 metres in the Himalayas. The mountain, on the border of Nepal and Tibet, annually attracts thousands of mountain climbers, and expedition teams.
