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Eight siblings from a family on Mount Everest

She was practically born with mountaineering. But it was still not easy for a young Nepalese woman to climb the world’s highest eight-thousander.

Kathmandu – The Nepalese Nima Lhamu Sherpa already knew as a little girl that she wanted to reach the top of the world. Around her in her home village in the Rolwaling region at around 4000 meters in the Himalayas, many men and also some women do this.

You keep climbing up to the highest point on earth, Mount Everest. Many live there from leading mountaineers from abroad to the top, carrying their luggage up or cooking for them on their great adventure trip on the mountain.

Five of Nima Lhamu Sherpa’s older brothers are also mountain guides. They kept telling her about their adventures, as she said in an interview with the German Press Agency. “I think that’s how I fell in love with the mountain.” The longing remained – although she had already lost a sixth brother, who was also a mountain guide, on the seven-thousand-meter Mount Pumori.

Evidence photos and a confirmation from the Nepalese authorities

In this May the time had come. The 21-year-old also stood on Mount Everest – and helped her family to achieve a worldwide record, as an employee of the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism says. So there were a total of eight siblings in her family upstairs, next to her and her six mountain guide brothers and a sister.

So far, the Guinness Book of Records has recognized two other families from the Himalayas, each with seven successful Everest mountaineering children, as record holders. But Nima Lhamu Sherpa and her siblings plan to fly to London soon to personally report their record to the headquarters of the institution behind the Guinness Book, as well as to present photos of evidence and a confirmation from the Nepalese authorities.

Her family’s last name is Sherpa – a name that is now synonymous with mountain guides from the Himalayas. Many families there are called Sherpa, the name also refers to an ethnic group originally from Tibet. Members of Sherpa families have already achieved a number of world records – for example, they were the fastest and most frequently on Mount Everest, as entries in the Guinness Book show. And last year, a Sherpa team made it for the first time in the particularly cold winter season on the K2 on the border between China and Pakistan, the second highest mountain in the world.

As an exercise on a six-thousander

The ascent of Everest was difficult for Nima Lhamu Sherpa – even if she was more accustomed to thinner air from her childhood in the Himalayan village than many foreign mountaineers, who often have to get used to the conditions for weeks before their trek.

Sometimes she suffered from altitude sickness and needed oxygen from bottles. “In the past, the happy faces of my brothers always gave me the feeling that mountaineering was just fun,” says the student and journalist. “But my own advancement has shown me that it is a very dangerous task that requires a lot of hard work, courage and determination.”

Her brothers had previously taken her to the six-thousander Mount Lobuche as an exercise and gave her the right equipment. Eventually they took her on a trek they led by a foreign group.

The price is the danger on the mountains

This was a special climb for another reason as well. Part of the foreign group was the teacher Tsang Yin-hung from Hong Kong, who took 25 hours and 50 minutes to get from the base camp on Mount Everest to the 8,848.86 meter high peak. That would have made her faster than any woman before, as Nima Lhamu’s brother Phurba Tenjing Sherpa, head of the expedition company, said. Nepal’s Ministry of Tourism has yet to officially confirm this.

The brother also says that their parents made them strong people who can stand on their own two feet. They were farmers and it was not always easy for them with all the children. Mainly potatoes and radishes were grown at the height at which they live.

Six sons then became mountain guides. This means they earn an average of around 3,000 euros in one season, more than the average Nepalese per year. The price for this is a lot of danger on the mountains. Phurba Tenjing Sherpa was very scared for her with his youngest sister when he went up, he says.

Now there are three siblings in the family who have never been to Everest. So far, they have shown no interest in advancement, says Phurba Tenjing Sherpa. But that could still be. dpa

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