Nepalese Woman Sets Everest Climbing Record
By: Fox News
Updated: February 26, 2013
KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepalese mountaineer Chhurim entered the record book by scaling Mount Everest twice in the same climbing season. In fact, she did so a week apart.
Guinness World Records said she is the first woman to climb the world's highest mountain twice in the same season -- the brief window of good weather each year that allows climbers to reach the summit.
Nepal's Tourism Minister Posta Bahadur Bogati handed over the Guinness World Records certificate issued to 29-year-old Chhurim on Monday.
She scaled the 29,035-foot summit on May 12, 2012, descended to the base camp for a couple of days' rest and then scaled the peak again a week later on May 19.
Chhurim, who uses only one name like most Sherpas, said she is not ready to quit.
"Everest is the first of the highest mountains that I have climbed, but I will continue mountaineering and hope to scale more peaks," she said.
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