Indian mountaineer and mother of two children, Anshu Jamsenpa holds her medals received from the Nepalese government for summiting Mount Everest twice. (Biju Boro/AFP/Getty Images)Anshu Jamsenpa’s ascent to the top of Mount Everest began with a blessing from the Dalai Lama in April. “Climbing Everest once in a season is more than enough for most people,” Alan Arnette, a mountaineering journalist and Everest expert, told The Washington Post. To do it twice in one season is normally reserved for Sherpas, not foreigners.”[Decades of human waste have made Mount Everest a ‘fecal time bomb’]How unusual are Jamsenpa’s back-to-back climbs? Anshu Jamsenpa of Arunachal Pradesh on becoming the 1st Indian woman to scale the Mount #Everest for fourth time.

Source: Washington Post May 22, 2017 20:21 UTC