World Record
Nepalese mountaineer Phunjo Zangmu Lama has set the record for the world’s fastest ascent of Everest by a woman in just 14 hours and 31 minutes. Phunjo Lama has broken her own record by doing this. Earlier, Phunjo Lama completed the climb in 2018 in 39 hours and 6 minutes.
A woman mountaineer of Nepalese origin has a record to her name. This woman climber has scaled the world’s highest peak Mount Everest in less than 15 hours.
According to tourism department sources, Phunjo Lama of Nepal climbed 8,848 meters at 6.3 am on Thursday. She scaled 8,848.86 meters (29.031 ft) of Mount Everest. This was her third attempt to reach the Himalayan peak.
Lama started climbing from the base camp at 3.52 pm on Wednesday and reached the summit at 6.23 am on Thursday. She has reached the summit in 14 hours 31 minutes from base camp.
Earlier, Nepal’s legendary mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa created history by climbing Mount Everest for the 30th time on Wednesday. Sherpa broke his own record of climbing the world’s highest peak 10 days ago.
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the highest mountain peak in the world. The height of this peak in the Himalayan range is 8,848.86 meters. Mount Everest is near the border of Nepal and China (Tibet). In Nepal, Mount Everest is known as ‘Sagarmata’, while in Tibet it is called ‘Chomo Lungma’.
Nepal’s Phunjo Jhangmu Lama, who smashed the record for the fastest ascent of Everest by a woman, said Sunday she is not chasing records but climbing for her country.https://t.co/CqdIgsPtCO
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 26, 2024
The peak is named after Colonel Sir George Everest. Sir George Everest was the head of the All India Three Dimensional Survey Project in India in 1840 by the British Government. Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Indian-Nepalese Sherpa Tensingh Norgay in the British expedition.
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