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Lhakpa Sherpa,
who works in a 7-Eleven store in Connecticut, reached the
8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak from the Tibetan side, said Rajiv
Shrestha of the 7 Summits Adventure company that organized her
expedition.
"She has broken her own record," Shrestha told Reuters. She was
accompanied to the top by a Nepali guide.
Three hours later, eight members of a Russian team and eight of
guides also climbed from the same northern route, he said.
Lhakpa Sherpa, one of the 11 children of a Nepali family, was
born in eastern Sankhuwasabha district where the world's fifth
highest mountain, Makalu, is located.
Two other Sherpa climbers share between them a record for 21
ascents of Everest, the maximum climbs by men.
More than 330 climbers have climbed Everest from the Nepali side
this month after expeditions were forced off the world's tallest
peak by last year's devastating earthquake that killed at least
18 people at Base Camp.
In total, 9,000 people were killed across Nepal in the 7.8
magnitude quake, the worst disaster in the country's recorded
history.
(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Editing by Douglas Busvine and Nick
Macfie)
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