A brand new pace file for the quickest ascent by a girl has been set on Mount Everest. Summiting Mount Everest (29,032 ft) from base camp at 17,598 ft usually takes climbers a number of days to achieve, because the magnitude of the climb is so immense, and acclimatization is essential. Nevertheless, Phunjo Lama is not any stranger to excessive altitude. Lama beforehand held the file for quickest ascent of Everest for a lady till 2021, when Ada Tsang Yin-Hung summited the mountain in 25 hours and 50 minutes. Lama returned to the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, Might 23, crushing the file by reaching the height in 14 hours and 31 minutes.
Phunjo Lama was born within the Chhokangpaaro village of Tsum, and spent most of her childhood within the mountains. Embracing her ardour for the mountains, Lama turned the primary lady from Tsum Valley to summit Mount Everest in 2018. She additionally climbed Mount Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain with out oxygen.
Climbing via the evening, Lama began the ascent from base camp at 3:52 pm on Might 22 and summited at 6:23 am on Might 23. The summit occurred to fall on Buddha Jayanti, a Buddhist celebration marking the beginning of Buddha, which Lama hoped would unfold a message of world peace. Phunjo Lama’s brother Sonam Lama spoke with the Australian Brodcasting Company (ABC) final week and shared this story of his sister.
“I’ve seen since childhood that she at all times preferred to be near the mountains and terrain whereas we obtained afraid of going to the large mountains.”
— Soman Lama
Visitors on Everest has been troublesome for a while now as a result of brief climate home windows and a sheer variety of climbers summiting the height. Lama’s brother additionally advised ABC that the visitors had slowed her ascent.
“Due to the visitors she needed to wrestle, in any other case she might have made it in fewer hours.”
Lama’s spectacular file was adopted up by Sherpa Kami Rita breaking his personal file by summitting Everest for the thirtieth time. Rita first summited Everest in 1994, and he has reached the summit in almost each season since.
Might usually offers good climate home windows for summitting the world’s tallest peak. Regardless of the success climbers are experiencing on the mountain, this month has seen many tragic accidents. Up to now within the 2024 season, there have been eight deaths reported, nonetheless lower than the record-breaking 18 from final season.
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