Extraordinary Nepalese woman climbs Everest twice in just 11 days
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 26, 2013 8:36
A Nepalese woman has pulled off the extraordinary feat of climbing Mt Everest TWICE in a single season, reaching the summit just 11 days after her first ascent.
Last night Chhurim Sherpa, 29 – known only as Chhurim – was being lauded as the heroine of Nepal after reaching the 29,035ft peak of the world’s highest mountain twice within the same month.
She beamed with happiness when Nepal’s Tourism Minister, Mr Posta Bahadur Bogati handed over a certificate marking her astonishing victory over the mountain that has claimed hundreds of lives.
Miss Chhurim reached the peak on May 12 last year before returning to base camp for a well-earned rest.
But the call of the mountain overcame any desire to return to her home in the hills to the north east of the capital, Kathmandu – and she repacked her bag, checked over her equipment and set out for the peak again with a different climbing team just over a week later.
‘She showed strong willpower and extraordinary zeal,’ said a Himalyan climbing group’s spokesman.
‘She is a very brave woman.’
The first local female climber to reach the peak was 32-year-old Pasang Lhamu, who accomplished the feat in 1993 but tragedy struck on the descent when bad weather moved in and she succumbed to the cold.
Since then 21 other Nepalese women have climbed to the top, but Miss Chhurim is the first to make two ascents in one season.
Some 3,000 people have reached the top of Mt Everest since Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay conquered it in 1953.
The ‘summit season on Everest begins in late April when a small window between spring and the summer monsoon offers the best conditions for making the climb.
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