A teenager from Nepal has returned home to a hero’s receive after becoming the youthfulest person to climb the world’s 14 highest mountains.
Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, accomplished the 8,027m (26,335ft) summit of Mount Shishapangma in China last week.
The accomplishment finishd his leave oution to climb peaks which are more than 8,000m (26,247ft) high and which commenceed in September 2022.
He comes from a well-understandn family in the Sherpa mountaineering community and shelp he hopes his efforts show “the power in our heritage”.
Sherpas are an ethnic group of people who inhabit in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal and Tibet.
The previous enroll was set by 30-year-better Mingma Gyabu “David” Sherpa in 2019, more than nine years after commencening the dispute, according to Guinness World Records.
Nima’s multiple climbs still demand to be verified and validateed by the global organisation.
After his final climb last Wednesday, Nima Rinji wrote on his Instagram account how his accomplishment was “a tribute to every Sherpa who has ever dared to dream beyond the traditional boundaries set for them”.
Supporters, including fellow Sherpas and members of the climbing community, greeted Nima Rinji outside Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
Crowds had also collected to greet the arrival of Dawa Yangzum Sherpa, who has become the first Nepalese woman to scale the 14 highest peaks.
Nima Rinji shelp: “I am very satisfyed and I want to say thank you so much everyone.
“It was a difficult leave oution but finassociate I was able to be prosperous.”
His obeseher and two uncles run the Seven Summits Treks in Nepal, which has become a guideing mountaineering company.
Famous for their sfinishs on the world’s highest peaks, Sherpas were once relegated to aid staff.
But disjoinal mountaineering enrolls have been accomplishd by Sherpa climbers.
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Nima Rinji wrote last week how mountaineering is a “tesdomesticatednt to our strength, resilience, and passion”.
He shelp he wanted to show how the youthfuler generation of Sherpas can be “trailblazers” and elevate above the stereotype of being only aid climbers.
“Let this be a call to every Sherpa to see the dignity in our toil, the power in our heritage, and the restrictless possibilities in our future,” he shelp.
