Nepal woman climbed Mount Everest for eight times

KATHMANDU, MAY 15: A Nepali woman climber set a new record by scaling Mount Everest for the eighth time, on Saturday.According to expedition organizers, The woman named Lhakpa Sherpa, 44 years old, stood atop the summit of world s highest mountain for the eighth time from the North Col (Tibetan side) as a handful of climbers got a very short window to make their final summit pushes this morning.She reached the summit point at around 6:35 am, Managing Director at Seven Summit Adventure, Mingma Gelu Sherpa, told over the telephone from the advanced base camp.Before leaving for Tibet in mid-April, Lhakpa had said that she wanted to show that Nepali women have the courage and endurance to perform their best despite all their hardships.In the last spring season, Lhakpa scaled Mount Everest from Tibet side for the seventh time. Sherpa said, This time, she broke her own record. She had apparently scaled Mount Everest for eight months after the birth of her first daughter and while she was two months pregnant with her second child.Without having any formal preparing or training on mountain climbing, Lhakpa, who grew up with 11 siblings, first climbed Mt Everest from Nepal side in 2000.She wants to climb Mt Everest for 10 times, as per her.