Hong Kong Teacher Becomes Fastest Woman to Climb Mount Everest: 'Luck Is Very Important'

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Tsang Yin-hung only stopped twice to change clothes between the base camp and the summit, and she credits 'luck' with not encountering many other climbers on the way up.

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of 39 hours and six minutes, which was set by a Nepali mountain guide named Phunjo Jhangmu Lama in 2018.

Tsang only stopped twice to change clothes between the base camp and the summit, and she credits "luck" with not encountering many other climbers on the way up. After reaching the highest camp at South Col, she only crossed paths with those making their descent, which didn't slow her down. "For the summit, it is not just not your ability, team work, I think luck is very important," Tsang said.

She began training as a mountaineer 11 years ago, and she ascended Mount Everest for the first time in 2017, becoming the first woman from Hong Kong to do so. Tsang attempted to make her latest climb earlier in May, but she was met with poor weather conditions, forcing her to stop short."I am ... relaxed and happy because I set this target around four years before," she told AFP.

Nepal has issued a record 408 Everest permits this climbing season, after last year's season was deterred by the COVID-19 pandemic. As many of 350 people have summited the mountain this spring, and four have died.

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