Nepali mountaineer Pemba Dorji Sherpa covered the distance in eight hours and ten minutes
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A Nepalese mountaineer broke the speed record for climbing Mount Everest on Thursday - CNN reports. The climber, Pemba Dorji Sherpa, 26 years old, reached the top of the mountain in eight hours and ten minutes.
The previous record for climbing Everest belonged to Lakpa Gahilo, who covered the distance in ten hours and 46 minutes. Pemba and Lakafa compete with each other to break the record. Pemba's previous record was set in May 2003 and was 12 hours and 43 minutes, but Lakpa broke his record three days later.
Breaking the record became easier after Everest climbers were allowed to use ropes and ladders placed by other climbing teams. Most of the climbers reach the summit of Everest within two or three weeks, because unlike the local climbers, they have difficulty adapting to the oxygen-poor air.
Records are broken on Everest on the occasion of the jubilee celebrations of its conquest
By Lior Kodner 27/5/03
Ming Kipa, 15 years old from Nepal, this weekend became the youngest person to qualify for the summit
Climbing Everest on Saturday. Many despise the "festival" atmosphere that has been created
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50 years after the summit of Everest was conquered for the first time, the news agencies reported at the end of the week that Ming Kipa, 15 years old from Nepal, became the youngest person to climb to the top of the highest mountain in the world. She managed to qualify for the summit, at a height of 8,848 meters. Last week, the oldest person climbed there so far - Japanese Yoichiro Miura, 70 years old; A day later, a new record was set for the speed of climbing the mountain - only 10 hours and 56 minutes. In recent years, a one-legged American, a blind American, and a legless Indian who failed in his mission have qualified for the top of the mountain.
Quite a few mountain climbers have recently despised the "festival" atmosphere that has been created around Everest. Despite this, in the last few weeks the interest in the mountain has been increasing, at the same time as the events organized by the Nepalese government to mark the jubilee of its conquest. Sir Edmund Hillary, 83, one of the first two mountaineers to summit the mountain on May 29, 1953, arrived in Kathmandu at the weekend to take part in the celebrations. His son, Peter, is also supposed to participate in one of the main events: together with Jamling Norkey, the son of the mountaineer Tenzing Norkey who reached the top of the mountain with Hilary Sr., he is supposed to qualify for the top of the mountain as part of a delegation organized by the TV channel "National Geographic".
"This is a very sad trend," said Sir Edmund Hilary this week, referring to the commercialization of the mountain and the attempt to break as many records as possible related to it as part of the jubilee celebrations for its conquest. "I want to think of Everest as a challenge for mountain climbers, but in recent years it seems that a lot of people want to climb it just for publicity. Many of them literally run up the mountain, to finish the journey as quickly as possible, and all this just so that their name appears in the newspaper."
When Hilary and Norquay qualified for the summit of Everest, the news of this was considered as revolutionary as the news of the first man landing on the moon, which happened some 16 years later; The two became cultural heroes. A week after the historic achievement, Hillary was knighted by the Kingdom of England. Norquay, who was not a citizen of the British Empire because of his belonging to the Sherpa tribe of Nepal, was not allowed to receive the title.
Against this background, a conflict soon developed between the Norkey family and members of the Hilary family. The tension increased after, in an autobiography published after his death in 1986, Norquay claimed that he succeeded in getting ahead of Hillary and was the first person to step on the "roof of the world". "It's just not fair," his grandson, Tashi Norkey, complained this week. "Without my grandfather's help, Hilary would never have been able to reach the top."
Hilary Jr. refused to comment on the affair, claiming that he was busy preparing for the climb up the mountain.
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