Which country's woman mountaineer has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time on 12 May 2022?

Which country's woman mountaineer has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time on 12 May 2022? Correct Answer Nepal

The correct answer is Nepal.

Key Points

A 48-year-old Nepali woman named Lhakpa Sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for the 10th time on 12 May 2022.

She broke her own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain by a female climber.

Sherpa last climbed the 8,848.86-metre (29,031.69-foot) mountain in 2018.

A fellow Nepali Kami Rita Sherpa, holds the men’s record of 26 climbs.

Additional Information

  • In April 2021, Priyanka Mohite had scaled Mt Annapurna (8,091 m), the 10th highest mountain peak in the world and had become the first Indian woman climber to achieve the feat.
  • Priyanka Mohite has become the first Indian woman to scale five peaks above 8,000 metres.
  • Nepal's Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time.
  • Rita scaled Mt Everest for the first time on May 13, 1994.
  • He has also scaled:
    • Mt Godwin-Austen (K2)
    • Mt Lhotse
    • Mt Manaslu
    • Mt Cho Oyu
  • He also holds the record for most climbs over 8000 metres.

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