A Sherpa girl around 15 years old may have broken the record for the youngest successful climber of Mount Everest , a Nepal Mountaineering Association official said. Ming Kipa Sherpa reached the world's highest summit Thursday as part of a Romanian expedition.
The mountaineering official said Ming Kipa Sherpa was around 15 but did not immediately know her exact date of birth to verify whether she had broken the record.
Lhakpa Sherpa, Ming Kipa Sherpa's sister, who reached the world's highest summit along with Ming Kipa Sherpa, also broke a record with the expedition by becoming the first woman to conquer Everest three times. She successfully climbed the 8,848-meter mountain in 2000 and 2001.
尼泊爾登山運動員協(xié)會稱，一名15歲的夏爾巴族少女基帕隨羅馬尼亞登山隊攀登珠穆朗瑪峰，并已于上周四登上世界之巔。如果消息屬實，她將成為登上珠峰的最年輕的人。登山組織的官員稱，目前需要證實基帕確切的出生日期以確定基帕是否創(chuàng)造了新的紀(jì)錄?；恋慕憬憬衲?0歲，曾在2000和2001年兩次登上珠峰，這次她與基帕同行，也打破了世界紀(jì)錄，成為三度登上珠峰的女性。