Teen breaks record by climbing Earth's highest peaks

A Nepalese teen has breached the satellite grounds for the youngest upland climber to acme Earth’s 14 tallest peaks.

Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, stood atop Tibet’s Mount Shishapangma astatine astir 6:05 americium section clip connected Wednesday.

In doing so, helium became the latest of conscionable a fewer twelve radical to person scaled each of the world’s “eight-thousanders” - the 14 mountains that the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) recognises arsenic much than 8,000 metres supra oversea level.

Sherpa, who started climbing high-altitude mountains astatine the property of 16, summited each eight-thousanders successful 740 days.

He reached the highest of Nepal’s Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, connected 30th September, 2022 - soon aft finishing his tenth-grade precocious schoolhouse exams.

On each trek the young jock was accompanied by his climbing partner, Pasang Nurbu Sherpa.

The record-shattering ascent connected Wednesday marked the latest successful a agelong database of accolades for Nima Rinji, who is besides the world's youngest climber to person scaled Himalayan mountains G1 and G2; the youngest climber to person scaled Kashmir’s Nanga Parbat; and the youngest climber to person scaled some Mount Everest and adjacent Lhotse wrong 10 hours.

Standing atop Mount Shishapangma connected Wednesday morning, though, different beingness ambition was beforehand of caput for the 18-year-old: to subvert the stereotype of Sherpas arsenic specified helpers who assistance overseas climbers connected their ascents.

"This acme is not conscionable the culmination of my idiosyncratic journey, but a tribute to each Sherpa who has ever dared to imagination beyond the accepted boundaries acceptable for us," Nima Rinji said connected Wednesday, soon aft scaling Mount Shishapangma.

"Mountaineering is much than labour, it is simply a testament to our strength, resilience and passion."

Although the connection 'Sherpa' is commonly utilized to picture idiosyncratic who is simply a upland usher oregon porter moving successful the Everest area, it is successful information the sanction of an taste radical of radical who unrecorded successful the mountains of Nepal.

Nima Rinji said helium wants to beryllium to younger procreation of Sherpas that they tin "rise supra the stereotype of being lone enactment climbers and clasp their imaginable arsenic top-tier athletes, adventurers, and creators."

"We are not conscionable guides; we are trailblazers," helium said connected Wednesday. "Let this beryllium a telephone to each Sherpa to spot the dignity successful our work, the powerfulness successful our heritage, and the limitless possibilities successful our future."

Nima Rinji comes from a household of record-holding mountaineers, who present tally Seven Summit Treks: Nepal’s largest mountaineering expedition company, and the radical with whom helium completed the Mount Shishapangma climb.

Speaking to the BBC soon aft the grounds had been set, his father, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, recounted the infinitesimal helium delivered the quality via outer phone.

"He told me, 'Dad, I reached the acme astatine 6:05 Chinese time. 'My workfellow Pasang Norbu and I person arrived'," Tashi Lakpa recalled.

"Being highly trained and professional, helium wasn't adjacent thrilled; it was normal."

"I said 'I had religion successful you. Return safely'."

Rakesh Gurung, Director of Adventure Tourism and Mountaineering Branch nether Nepal's Department of Tourism, confirmed to the BBC that Nima Rinji had acceptable the record.

“The highest has been confirmed this morning. Now I recognize that determination is simply a substance of giving a certificate aft returning to the basal camp," helium said.

The erstwhile grounds holder for the youngest mountaineer to standard each eight-thousanders was besides a Nepali climber, Mingma Gyabu ‘David’ Sherpa, who achieved it astatine the property of 30 successful 2019.

"This grounds is hard to interruption now," Gurung noted.

All 14 eight-thousanders are located successful Asia, successful the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges.