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Appa scales Everest for record 16th time
Well-known mountaineer Appa Sherpa has broken his own previous record by scaling Mt. Everest for the 16th time on May 19, 2006.
Together with two Sherpas and one American climber, Appa, as a head guide, made it to the top at around 10.50 a.m. last Friday. The expedition was handled by the Asian Trekking (P) Ltd.
Appa's first successful ascent of Everest was on May 10, 1990 and he set foot atop the summit twice in 1992. He has been climbing the world's highest peak regularly since 1990.
Appa announced retirement from climbing after he ascended the 8,848-metre peak for the 13th time in 2003. He continued to climb the peak, breaking his earlier records.
According to news reports, more mountaineers are climbing Mt. Everest this season because of favourable weather conditions. Around 45 climbers from various countries climbed the world's highest peak on May 18 (Thursday) alone.
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation said that climbers from the US, the UK, Poland, Canada, Australia, Spain, Philippines, Korea, Germany, Switzerland and Austria along with Sherpa guides of Nepal successfully climbed the peak on that day.
Setting a world record, a 70-year-old Japanese climber scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, making him the oldest person in the world to achieve the feat.
The second Nepali women to climb Mount Everest, Lakpa Sherpa, made another world record by ascending the peak for the sixth time.
New Zealand’s mountaineer Mark Inglis, who lost his legs in a climbing accident 24 years ago, become the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.
Yet another new record on Everest
Lhakpa Sherpa has broken her earlier record on mountaineering by scaling the world's tallest peak for the sixth time. According to news reports, she climbed the 8,848-metre peak from the Tibetan side along with her husband George Dijmarescu. As members of the International Everest Expedition, the couple climbed the peak on May 11, 2006.
Lhakpa, who hails from the northern part of Sankhuwasabha district, climbed Mt. Everest for the first time from the South Pole in 2000. Then, she scaled the peak in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
She is the second Nepali woman to climb the peak. National luminary late Pasang Lamu Sherpa was the first Nepali woman to scale the peak, but she died while descending.
According to another report, an Italian climber Alois Brugger, 47, of Kammerlander Pasang Lhamu Chuli Expedition team, died while climbing the 7351 m Mt Pasang Lhamu Chuli on May 11.
Diplomat atop Mt. Everest
A team of HG Everest Expedition comprising nine mountaineers, including a diplomat stationed at the British Embassy in Nepal, successfully scaled Mt. Everest on May 18, 2006.
The successful mountaineers were 39-year-old British diplomat Serena Helena Brocklebank, British national John Charles Pomfret, 44, Mark Squirrell, 34, of Australia and Addries Norte Botha, 54, a Canadian doctor, according to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.
Similarly, the Nepalese team members of the expedition to scale the Mt. Everest were Pasang Dawa Sherpa, 36, Pasang Nuru Sherpa, 30, Ang Namgyal Sherpa, 23, Chewang Dorjee Sherpa, 25, and Lakpa Thundu Sherpa.
Meanwhile, an eight-member Polish expedition team comprising Boguslaw Stanislaw Ogrodnik, a 41-year-old Lawyer at the British Embassy, Tomasz Andrzej Kobielski, 33, Dariusz Jerzy Zaluski, 47, Janusz Adam Admski, 37, and Marta Eliza Wojciechowska, 32, of Poland also successfully scaled Mt. Everest on May 18.
The Nepalese members of the Falvit Everest Expedition-06 to scale Mt. Everest included Dorjee Sherpa, 40, Phur Tenji Sherpa, 32, and Mingma Sherpa.
Peaks scaled
One member of "International Everest Expedition 06" team scaled the 8,848-metre Mt. Everest from the Tibet side and came across to the Everest Base Camp of Nepal on 13th May 2006.
The Korean climber is Mr. Young Seok Park. Mr. Serap Jangbu Sherpa, a high altitude guide, also made it to the top.
Led by Mr. Juan Antonio Oliverieri of Spain, the team included eight members. The handling agency was the Thamserku Trekking (P) Ltd.
Eleven members of the Chilean Lhotse Expedition 06 and four supporting high altitude guides climbed the 8,516m. Mt. Lhotse on May 12, 2006.
According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA), the team was led by Mr. Rodrigo Hernan Jordan Fucas of Chile. Those who scaled the peak include Mr. Aliro Ernesto O. Miranda, Mr. Eugenio Luis Guzman Letelier, Mr. Elias Misael Alvial Cid, Mr. Gabrial Andres Becker Mardones, Mr. Sebastian I. Dominguez, Ms. Maria Paz Ibarra Letelier, Mr. Maximiliano A. M. Edwards, Mr. Nicolas C. I. Scott, Mr. Sebastian I. V. Contador and Mr. Nicolas I. VArela. Similarly, the high altitude guides are Mr. Palden Nyamge Sherpa, Mr. Phu Tashi Sherpa, Mr. Lakpa Rita Sherpa and Mr. Chewang Lendu Sherpa.
The team was permitted to climb the peak from normal route for a period of 75 days from March 25, 2006. The Asian Trekking (P) Ltd. was the handling agency.
Likewise, four members of Deutsch Schweitz Ama Dablam Expedition 06 climbed the 6812-metre Mt. Ama Dablam on May 4, 2006. The German climbers were Dr. Olaf Rieck, Mr. Dieter Rulker, Mr. Volker Tiller and Mr. Axel Otto. Led by Dr. Olaf Rieck, the team had nine members. The expedition was handled by the Multi Adventure P. Ltd.
Meanwhile, two members of the 12-member Swiss Ama Dablam Expedition 06 climbed Mt. Ama Dablam on May 4, 2006. The successful climbers were Mr. Thomas Forestieri and Mr. Lampley Brandon Gaay. The team was led by Mr. Anjan Truffer from Switzerland. The Ice Land Trekking P. Ltd. was the handling agency.
Similarly, two members of the six-member Ama Dablam Expedition 06 Group successfully scaled the peak on May 5, 2006. The successful climbers were Mr. Fabio Meraldi and Mr. Mr. Diego Govannini. Handled by the Thamserkhu Trekking (P) Ltd., the expedition was led by Mr. Fabio Meraldi from Italy.
Climbers felicitated
The Nepal Mountaineering Federation ((NMF) felicitated Korean mountaineer Mr. Park Young Scok and Nepali climber Mr. Serep Jangbu Sherpa amidst a function organised in Kathmandu on May 18, 2006.
Along with 13 other climbers, Mr. Scok and Mr. Sherpa climbed the world's tallest peak Mt. Everest on May 11, 2006
Mr. Scok boasts of setting a record of climbing 14 high mountains of the world. Similarly, Mr. Sherepa has climbed eight highest peaks of the world.