KATHMANDU, Nepal – Expedition organizers say a 42-year-old convenience store worker from Connecticut has scaled Mount Everest for a seventh time, breaking her own record as the most successful female climber of the world’s highest peak.
Rajeeb Shrestha of the 7 Summits Adventure agency in Kathmandu said Lhakpa Sherpa was among 18 climbers who reached the peak on Friday morning from the northern side in Tibet.
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She climbed Everest six times between 2000 and 2006 before moving to the United States where she is a permanent resident. She was born in Nepal and took up mountaineering as a profession like most Sherpas in the region.
Two Sherpa men have scaled Everest 21 times to hold the record for most climbs of Everest.