Nima Rinji Sherpa is youngest person to summit world’s 14 highest peaks at 18 years old. Now he is pushing for recognition of his community
Growing up as a sherpa in Nepal, Nima Rinji Sherpa was used to his relatives performing superhuman feats on the mountains. There was his father, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, who at 19 summited Mount Everest without any additional oxygen, becoming the youngest to do so. Then there were his uncles, the first brothers to scale the world’s 14 highest peaks together.
But at 18, he has already outpaced them all. This month, he became the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s highest mountains – which are spread across Nepal, Pakistan, China and India – a mission he began aged just 16.
Written by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/25/sherpas-are-rarely-seen-as-elite-athletes-record-breaking-teenagers-fight-for-equality under the title “‘Sherpas are rarely seen as elite athletes’: record-breaking teenager’s fight for equality”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
