An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer on Wednesday broke the record for the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks, his team said. Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet’s 8,027-metre-high (26,335 feet) Shisha Pangma on Wednesday morning, completing his mission to stand on the world’s highest peaks. He had trained well and I was confident he would do it,” his father Tashi Sherpa told AFP. The record was previously held by another Nepali climber, Mingma Gyabu ‘David’ Sherpa. In 2021, a team of Nepali climbers made the first winter ascent of K2, the world’s second-highest peak — the notoriously challenging 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) “savage mountain” of Pakistan.

Source: Punch October 09, 2024 06:04 UTC