Kathmandu : Nepalese climber Nima Rinji Sherpa has set a record by becoming the youngest person in the world to climb Kangchenjunga at the age of 18 this morning. <\/p>\n
He alongside a team of eight climbers, including the Sherpas, reached the top of the world’s third highest mountain at 8586 metres, at 9:30 am, confirmed Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, Managing Director of Seven Summit Treks (SST), a leading Nepal-based expedition operator. <\/p>\n
With this historic achievement, Nima Rinji has achieved his 13th 8000’er, and is now aiming to complete all 14 peaks above 8000 metres and claim the youngest record. Now only Shishapangma remains for him to complete his 14th 8000’er. <\/p>\n
Nima Rinji previously set many records. Last year he became the youngest person in the world to climb Mt. K2 and youngest person to complete the Everest-Lhotse traverse at the age of 17 years. <\/p>\n
Nima Rinji, from Makalu in Sankhuwasabha district, is the youngest son of record holding climber, Tashi Lakpa. Tashi Lakpa, also Chairperson of 14 Peaks Expedition, set a world record becoming the youngest climber to scale Mt Everest without bottled oxygen at the age of 19.<\/p>\n
List of peaks climbed by Nima Rinji<\/p>\n
Manaslu (8,163m) \u2013 August 30, 2022<\/p>\n
Everest (8,848m) \u2013 May 24, 2023<\/p>\n
Lhotse (8,516m) \u2013 May 25, 2023<\/p>\n
Nanga Parbat (8,125m) \u2013 June 26, 2023<\/p>\n
Gasherbrum I (8,080m) \u2013 July 18, 2023<\/p>\n
Gasherbrum II (8,035m) \u2013 July 19, 2023<\/p>\n
Broad Peak (8,051m) \u2013 July 23, 2023<\/p>\n
K2 (8,611m) \u2013 July 27, 2023<\/p>\n
Dhaulagiri (8,167m) \u2013 September 29, 2023<\/p>\n
Cho Oyu (8,188 m) \u2013 October 6, 2023<\/p>\n
Annapurna (8,091m) \u2013April 12, 2024<\/p>\n
Makalu (8,485m) \u2013May 4, 2024<\/p>\n
Kangchenjunga (8586m)–June 8, 2024<\/p>\n
The team of nine climbers, including Nima Rinji, achieved the remarkable feat as part of the Seven Summit Treks 14 Peak Expedition, marking the last successful summit of the season in Nepal, said SST’s General Manager Thaneswar Guragai. <\/p>\n
“Our team will be engaged further in climbing the five Pakistani 8000ers this summer.”<\/p>\n
Kangchenjunga Summiteers include: <\/p>\n
1. Nima Rinji Sherpa (Nepal) <\/p>\n
2. Pasang Nurbu Sherpa (Nepal) <\/p>\n
3. Alina Pekova (Russia)<\/p>\n
4. Phurbu Kusang Sherpa (Nepal) <\/p>\n
5. Fura Tshering Sherpa (Nepal) <\/p>\n
6. Dendi Sherpa (Nepal)<\/p>\n
7. Ang Tenji Sherpa (Nepal)<\/p>\n
8. Anja Blacha (Germany) (No O2)<\/p>\n
9. Sona Sherpa (Nepal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu : Nepalese climber Nima Rinji Sherpa has set a record by becoming the youngest person in the world to climb Kangchenjunga at the age of 18 this morning.
\nHe alongside a team of eight climbers, including the Sherpas, reached the top of the world’s third highest mountain at 8586 metres, at 9:30 am, confirmed Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, Managing Director of Seven Summit Treks (SST), a leading Nepal-based expedition operator.
\nWith this historic achievement, Nima Rinji has achieved his 13th 8000’er, and is now aiming to complete all 14 peaks …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":13389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,490,3,2065],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-slider","category-society","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13396,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}