Journalist becomes first Bangladeshi to scale Everest
BANGLADESH: A 30-year-old journalist became the first Bangladeshi to
conquer Mount Everest when he reached the Summit of the world’s highest
peak on Sunday, an official said.
Nasrin Jahan, deputy mission chief of Bangladesh’s embassy in Nepal,
told AFP Monday that Musa Ibrahim, who works as a sub-editor for the
Daily Star, was now on his way down from the peak.
“He was the first in a team of 18 mountaineers who reached the top on
Sunday. Everest base camp informed it to his tour operator.
We also got confirmation from the Tibet mountaineering association,”
Jahan said. “He used the Tibetan side to scale Mount Everest,” she said
by phone from the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
Thousands of people have reached the summit since Edmund Hillary and
Tenzing Norgay became the first people to conquer the 8,848-metre
(29,028-foot) mountain in 1953.
On Saturday at least 50 mountaineers scaled the summit including
13-year-old American Jordan Romero, who became the youngest person to
conquer the peak, and record-breaking Apa Sherpa, 50, known as “super
Sherpa”.
The summit season on Everest begins in late April and May when a
small window between spring and the summer monsoon offers the best
conditions for making the ascent.
Dhaka, Monday, AFP |