Mountaineers make their way to the summit of Mount Everest , as they ascend on the south face from Nepal . KATHMANDU: Nepal 's Phunjo Lama smashed the record on Thursday for the fastest ascent of Everest by a woman, conquering the world's highest mountain in 14 hours and 31 minutes.
"She started at 15:52 on May 22, summited 6.23am May 23," Khim Lal Gautam, chief of the tourism's department field office at the base camp, told AFP. That record was broken in 2021 by Ada Tsang Yin-hung from Hong Kong, who conquered the mountain in 25 hours and 50 minutes. "She is very courageous and determined ... and trained hard for her summit," fellow woman mountaineer Maya Sherpa said.Lama's successful ascent came as a Kenyan climber was confirmed dead on Everest and the search continues for three other missing climbers, one British and two Nepali.
More than 500 climbers and their guides have already reached the summit of Everest after a rope-fixing team reached the peak last month.
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