All-Nepali team fixes rope to K2 summit, opens route for the season
A 5 member team of Nepali Sherpa guides fixed rope upto the summit of K2 in Pakistan as team member Pasdawa Sherpa makes record by climbing top five 8000er in 69 days, 3 days ahead of previous record held by Nimsda
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Nepali climber Pasdawa Sherpa set a new record by becoming the climber to summit the top five 8,000ers in the shortest time as he successfully summited K2 on Thursday night. Pasdawa and a team of 4 other Nepali guides finished fixing ropes to K2 summit thus officially opening the mountain for this season.
This means that Pasdawa has climbed the top 5 highest mountains of the world in the shortest duration of time. The 31 year old climber reached the summit of K2 (8,611 m) in Pakistan at 10.45 pm local time, completing the summit of the top five peaks– Everest (8,848.86 m) K2 (8,611 m) Kanchenjung (8,586 m), Lhotse (8,516 m) and Makalu (8,485 m) in 69 days, said 8K Expedition, his expedition organizer.
“This is three days ahead of the previous record time,” said Pemba Sherpa, one of the founders of the 8K Expedition, who currently is in the K2 base camp.
Nirmal Purja aka Nimsdai climbed the five highest 8000er in 72 days during his record breaking Project Possible mission in 2019.
With this, Pasdawa also became the youngest climber to summit top five eight-thousander in record time.
Pakistani climber Shehroze Kashif is the youngest person to climb the top five peaks so far. The 20 year climber, known as Broad Boy, climbed Kanchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu this spring, while he climbed K2 and Everest the previous year.
Pasdawa got the chance to summit all five of the peaks as part of Norwegian Kristin Harila’s 14 peaks challenge. Kristin wants to summit all 14 peaks within six months.
Dawa Ongju Sherpa is another member of Kristin’s team. The duo will guide her throughout her 14 peaks mission.
“Dawa Ongju and Kristin have left Camp IV for a summit push. All members of the team will summit K2 tomorrow morning,” said Pemba.
