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Detailed explanation-1: -Mt Lhotse has recorded its first summit in 3 years. Mt Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in the world. Indian climber Debasish Biswas and a woman climber from New Zealand were the first to successfully climb Mt Lhotse after a team of Sherpas fixed the route to summit.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay-1953 Everest. Edmund Hillary (left) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the 29, 035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first people to stand atop the world’s highest mountain. Please be respectful of copyright.

Detailed explanation-3: -At 11:30 in the morning of May 29, 1953, New Zealand’s Ed Hillary and Darjeeling’s Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first known human beings to stand on the highest point on this Earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -How much more demanding, therefore, must it be to return and climb it again? And again. And again… Two who know better than most are Kami Rita Sherpa and Lhakpa Sherpa, who respectively hold the male and female record for most ascents of Everest.

Detailed explanation-5: -July 28, Tsering Sherpa a Nepalese climber summited Mount K2 (8, 611m) in just 12 hours 20 minutes setting set the world record for making the fastest summit in the world’s second highest mountain. According to sources, finished the speed climb on K2 in 12hrs 20 min 23 sec.