Sky is the limit: Steve Plain before making the climb. more-inAn Australian mountaineer scaled Mount Everest on Monday, completing his quest to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents in record time, an expedition organiser said. Australian climber Steve Plain scaled 8,850-metre (29,035-foot) Everest 117 days after beginning his mission in Antarctica. Polish climber Janusz Kochanski held the previous record for climbing the seven peaks, doing it in 126 days last year. A 69-year-old Chinese double-amputee also scaled Mount Everest on Monday.

Source: The Hindu May 14, 2018 15:22 UTC